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Kuwait must assure protection for Filipino migrant workers

THE recent death of Filipino migrant workers Dafnie Nacalaban and Jenny Alvarado in Kuwait has prompted Department of Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Cacdac to consider reimposing the ban on the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to that Arab Gulf emirate.

Nacalaban, who had been working as a domestic helper in Kuwait since December 2019, was reported missing by her employer last October. Her decomposing body was dug up two months later in the residence of a Kuwaiti individual.

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