Philippines Bars Citizens From Working in Kuwait After Body Is Found<br />The Philippine government said last month that it was suspending the approval of employment certificates for such workers while the deaths<br />of several domestic workers in Kuwait, under what the Philippine government called mysterious circumstances, were investigated.<br />Human Rights Watch said last month that migrant workers in Kuwait "remain vulnerable to abuse despite recent reforms," and<br />that some of the protections established by recent laws did not apply to domestic workers.<br />On Friday, Mr. Duterte showed graphic photographs on live television of a Filipino<br />domestic worker whose body he said had been found in a freezer in Kuwait.<br />Mr. Duterte said the government would bring home any workers in Kuwait who wanted to leave.<br />The announcement came days after the Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, responded angrily to reports<br />that the body of a Filipino domestic worker had been found in a freezer in an apartment in Kuwait.<br />12, 2018<br />MANILA — The Philippines on Monday barred its citizens from traveling to Kuwait for employment, accusing the oil-rich Gulf state of turning a blind eye to the abuse<br />and even killing of domestic workers and other Filipinos.
