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The state of human rights in Qatar is a concern for several non-governmental

organisations, such as Human Rights Watch, which reported in 2012 that hundreds of
thousands of mostly South Asian migrant workers in construction in Qatar risk serious
exploitation and abuse, sometimes amounting to forced labour. Awareness grew
internationally after Qatar's selection to stage the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and some
reforms have since taken place, including two sweeping changes in 2020.
Domestic servants, who are often poor women from South-east Asian countries, have
few rights, and can become victims of human trafficking, sometimes forced
into prostitution. There are restrictions on individual rights such as freedom of
expression, and sodomy laws exist to punish offenders, both male and
female.[1][2] Qatar's legal system is a mixture of civil law and Islamic law. Flogging is
enforced as a punishment, and capital punishment, although rare in recent times, was
enforced in 2020 for the first time in 17 years.
The National Human Rights Committee was established in 2002 to investigate abuses.