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00:00The Department of Foreign Affairs is in favor of the implementation of the deployment ban of Filipinos in Kuwait.
00:06They say that the police should be added to protect the OFWs.
00:11Here is my report.
00:22Two days after the OFWs found out that General Alvarado was the one who returned to the country.
00:27His true identity was revealed and he was immediately put under an autopsy.
00:31Rodriguez Rizal was found guilty.
00:34According to his family, Jenny's boss told them that he died after being suffocated in a fire.
00:40Something that they did not believe.
00:43For them, the incident was a foul play because Jenny's body was full of bruises.
00:48At the Senate hearing, Jenny's family told her the abuse that her mother experienced from her Kuwaiti employer.
00:54My mother said that she was being imprisoned in her house when her employer left.
00:59She was being scolded for eating too much.
01:05We investigated the DMW-01 and the DFA.
01:09The foul play.
01:11There it is.
01:13Imprisoned.
01:15Shrunk.
01:16Not being fed properly.
01:18We will look at the criminal aspect of the case that we will file.
01:23In 2018, the total deployment bans of OFWs in Kuwait were implemented after Joanna Dimafilis' body was found inside the freezer of her employer in Kuwait.
01:33But this was delayed after there was an agreement in Kuwait that there should be additional protection for OFWs.
01:39In addition, they have the right to hide their passports and mobile phones, the right to food, housing and health insurance of their employers.
01:48Despite this, the cases of abuse did not stop.
01:52In 2023, Julie Bernara's body was found in the desert of Kuwait after her employer killed and raped her child.
02:00The bilateral labor agreement in Kuwait was ordered to be studied again.
02:04The deployment of first-time overseas workers in Kuwait was stopped and it is still being implemented until now.
02:10The Senate approved the implementation of the deployment ban.
02:14Even if I have to talk to the President about this, and I will,
02:19let's go back to the ban.
02:21There will be no new deployment.
02:24Stop.
02:25Those who are there now, those who have contracts,
02:29if they want to renew their contracts, I'm okay with that.
02:34But there is no change.
02:37Those who are staying there, that's it.
02:40Then they renew their contracts.
02:45Okay.
02:46The Department of Foreign Affairs is in favor of this.
02:49The government of Kuwait has a hard time talking about the addition of police
02:53to protect our OFWs.
02:55But the deployment ban can be used as a bargaining chip.
02:58I believe that when you mentioned that the ban should be reinstated,
03:03that's one incentive for Kuwait to agree.
03:06If there are a lot of requirements and briefings for our countrymen working in Kuwait,
03:11it should be the same for the employers.
03:13Rafi Tima reporting for GMA Integrated News.