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LEADING London university UCL was named and shamed yesterday for failing to take action tostop “modern-day slavery” conditions at its international campus in Qatar.
UCL is under pressure to act on human rights violations at Doha’s Education City uncovered by an International Trades Union Congress (ITUC) probe.
The ITUC raised the conditions with bosses of UCL and seven other global universities that operate at the campus in a private letter.
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