University College London pressured over Qatar links

In a letter to Dame Nicola Brewer, the institution's vice-provost international, McGovern says she is concerned about labour standards and the possible use of forced labour at the Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar, where UCL has a campus.

McGovern, a former UCL student, cites concerns regarding the labour system employed for much of Qatar's large migrant workforce and examples of lower-paid contracts for migrant workers, the withholding of passports and trafficking of forced labour identified by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in a recent visit.

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