Despite the brutal killing of two Filipinas last July, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has identified Kuwait as one of the 10 countries that protects the rights and welfare of migrant workers. The other countries identified are Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Laos, Myanmar, Ireland, Saipan, Norway, Syria and Vietnam.
Kuwait will be the second Middle Eastern country after Bahrain to end the sponsorship system or locally called kafeel. Last 2009, Bahrain abolished the sponsorship system of its foreign workers which was likened to “modern-day slavery.”
The Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines in Kuwait reminds Overseas Filipino Workers or OFWs that the registration as Absentee Voter for the National Elections of 2010 is still going on at the Embassy.
As part of the 111th Philippine Independence Day Celebration, a day-long event in Friday, June 12, 2009 will be held in Kuwait for OFWs in this country with some of the big names in Philippine politics and entertainment industry gracing the big event.