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The Philippines on Wednesday lifted its ban on migrant workers heading to jobs in Kuwait, capping a diplomatic row sparked when a murdered Filipina maid was found in her employer's freezer.
The news comes days after Kuwait and the Philippines signed a deal to regulate and protect the hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who seek higher-paid employment in the wealthy Gulf state.
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The spat, simmering for months, reached its lowest point in April when Kuwaiti authorities expelled Manila's envoy over videos showing embassy staff helping Filipino workers flee allegedly abusive bosses in Kuwait.
"President (Rodrigo Duterte) directed me to lift the ban totally... both for the domestic and skilled professionals," Labour Secretary Silvestre Bello said. "The president deemed that our overseas workers are protected in Kuwait and he will no longer see incidents of maltreatment, hopefully."
Around 262,000 Filipinos work in Kuwait, nearly 60 per cent of them domestic workers, according to the Philippine foreign ministry.
Roque: Upon recommendation of Special Envoy to Kuwait Abdullah Mama-o, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte tonight instructed Secretary Silvestre Bello to totally lift the ban on deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait | via @GenKabilingThey are among the millions of its citizens the Philippines has sent to work abroad, seeking salaries they cannot get in their relatively impoverished nation. The money they send back home accounts for about 10 per cent of the Philippine economy.
- Manila Bulletin News (@manilabulletin) May 16, 2018
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