{"id":7378,"date":"2018-07-24T12:05:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T12:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/worlds\/philippines-and-kuwait-signal-agreement-on-workers-rights\/02"},"modified":"2018-07-24T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T12:05:02","slug":"philippines-and-kuwait-signal-agreement-on-workers-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/?p=7378","title":{"rendered":"Philippines and Kuwait signal agreement on workers&#8217; rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article-ext\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In this file photo taken on February 18, 2018 Filipina workers returning home from Kuwait arrive at Manila International Airport.\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/philippines-and-kuwait-signal-agreement-on-workers-rights-5b5715edd6b75.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/> Symbol copyright AFP Image caption The Philippines banned workers from vacationing to Kuwait amid allegations of abuse <\/p>\n<p>A sour dispute between Kuwait and the Philippines over the remedy of household employees is set to end with the signing of a brand new agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte had banned staff travelling to Kuwait amid allegations of abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Public outrage adopted the murder of a tender maid whose body was present in a Kuwaiti rental freezer in February.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting diplomatic row led to the expulsion of an envoy and the arrest of embassy employees.<\/p>\n<p>About 260,000 Philippine voters reside and work in Kuwait, most as domestic servants.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/philippines-and-kuwait-signal-agreement-on-workers-rights-5b5715ee370d8.jpg\"> Symbol copyright Reuters Image caption The death and obvious torture of 29-year-vintage Joanna Demafelis outraged many Filipinos <\/p>\n<p>The demise of Joanna Demafelis, a 29-year-old maid, used to be one reason for the diplomatic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>She used to be found useless in a freezer in her employer&#8217;s rental in February, greater than a yr after she used to be said missing, with signs of torture.<\/p>\n<p>Her employers, a married couple, have been discovered after an in depth seek aided by way of Interpol. <\/p>\n<p>Both were sentenced to dying in absentia in Kuwait, which has asked their extradition from Lebanon and Syria where they&#8217;re being one after the other detained.<\/p>\n<p>The spat among the 2 international locations reached new highs in April, whilst Kuwait expelled the Philippine ambassador over video showing embassy staff &#8220;rescuing&#8221; staff allegedly abused via their employers.<\/p>\n<p>Kuwait known as the movements &#8220;smuggling&#8221; and a violation of its regulations, and arrested staff of the Philippine embassy. It said it might &#8220;chase down&#8221; those accountable and placed them on trial.<\/p>\n<p>It additionally recalled its own ambassador to the Philippines &#8211; which the Philippines handiest discovered while it summoned him to protest towards the treatment of its citizens in Kuwait.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symbol copyright AFP Image caption The Philippines banned workers from vacationing to Kuwait amid allegations of abuse A sour dispute between Kuwait and the Philippines over the remedy of household employees is set to end with the signing of a brand new agreement. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte had banned staff travelling to Kuwait amid allegations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}