MANILA
(Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday he
would extend his ban on sending workers to Kuwait to include other
countries if investigations showed Filipinos were being seriously abused
by employers elsewhere.
The
Southeast Asian country has suspended the deployment of workers to the
Gulf state since last month after Duterte said the abuse was unchecked
and had driven several Filipino domestic helpers there to suicide.
"We
are doing an audit now (to) find out the places where we deploy
Filipinos and our countrymen suffer brutal treatment and human
degradation," Duterte said in the central province of Iloilo.
He
was visiting the wake of a Filipino whose body was found this month in a
freezer at an abandoned apartment in Kuwait, with signs of torture.
The
killing was the final straw for Duterte, who asked commercial airlines
to help the voluntary repatriation of workers from Kuwait. The
Philippine Senate began an inquiry on Wednesday into deaths and abuse of
Filipino workers.
Source: Yahoo News
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