Kuwait, where OFW abuse is routine, targets Filipino visas as PH gov’t flip flops on deployment ban

MANILA, Philippines—“One death is too many,” the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said when Jullebee Ranara, a 35-year-old overseas Filipino worker (OFW), was killed in Kuwait this year.

 

The CHR, which decried the killing of Ranara, had stated that there is an increasing number of distressed OFWs seeking help in shelters and are waiting for repatriation in the oil-rich country.

 

According to the Human Rights Watch, several embassies in Kuwait, including the Philippines, received over 10,000 complaints from domestic workers in 2009 regarding these:

Physical, sexual and psychological abuse
Nonpayment of wages
Excessively long working hours without …

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