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Kin seeks justice for 'abused' OFW who died 2 weeks after return from Kuwait

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/news/02/18/ofw-kuwait-2.jpg?ext=.jpg"/><figcaption>Family members mourn for an OFW allegedly abused by her employers in Kuwait. ABS-CBN News</figcaption></figure></div>MANILA - The family of an OFW who allegedly suffered abuse in the hands of her employers in Kuwait called for justice on Sunday after she died from an illness just 2 weeks after returning home. Josie Lloren had been working in the Gulf state since 2015 to support her 3 children in Davao City. In November 2017, however, she told her sister that she was being maltreated by her employer&#x27;s wife and had to find another job, her family told ABS-CBN News. They said that was the last time they talked with Lloren before she returned gravely ill to the Philippines in January 26 and was rushed to a hospital. She died there last February 9. Lloren succumbed to cardio respiratory arrest secondary to cerebro vascular disease, according to her death certificate. &quot;Hindi namin alam talaga kung ano &#x27;yung nangyari doon sa Kuwait. Natanggap naman [namin] na namatay siya; ang hindi namin matanggap na hindi namin alam kung anong dahilan,&quot; Lloren&#x27;s brother, Joel Perez, Sr. told ABS-CBN News. (We don&#x27;t know what happened in Kuwait. We&#x27;ve accepted her death, but we cannot accept that we don&#x27;t know the reason.) &quot;Mensahe ko na lang sa ating mahal na Presidente Rodrigo Duterte na sana mabigyan ng hustisya ang aming kapatid,&quot; he added. (My only message to our President Rodrigo Duterte is that may our sister be given justice.) Duterte had slammed Kuwait after another Filipina worker, Joanna Demafelis, was found dead in a freezer. He alleged that Arab employers routinely rape their Filipina workers, force them to work 21 hours a day and feed them scraps. He has also <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/02/12/18/ph-orders-total-ban-on-workers-deployment-to-kuwait">banned the deployment</a> of new workers to Kuwait and ordered airlines to fly home any of the 252,000 Filipinos working there who wish to return.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/09/18/the-filipino-is-no-slave-duterte-fumes-at-latest-pinay-death-in-kuwait">&#x27;The Filipino is no slave&#x27;: Duterte fumes at latest Pinay death in Kuwait</a></li></ul>About 10 million Filipinos work abroad and the money they remit back is a lifeline of the Philippine economy. Their treatment abroad is often a political issue at home.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/15/18/ph-to-kuwait-treat-filipinos-as-you-would-treat-your-nationals ">PH to Kuwait: Treat Filipinos as you would treat your nationals</a></li></ul>Kuwait&#x27;s foreign minister previously condemned Manila&#x27;s &quot;escalation&quot; of the issue but Philippine Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said Friday the Kuwaiti ambassador had assured him his government was &quot;outraged&quot; over the killing and determined to find those responsible.Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello said late Friday that &quot;working groups&quot; from Kuwait and the Philippines are discussing forging a memorandum for protecting the rights of Filipinos in Kuwait, many of whom are working as maids.Domestic workers in that country are not covered by ordinary labor legislation, and accounts of Filipinas being subjected to abuse and exploitation in the Middle East have long circulated. -- With a report from Agence France-Presse

The family of an OFW who allegedly suffered abuse in the hands of her employers in Kuwait called for justice on Sunday after she died from an illness just 2 weeks after returning home.

The family of an OFW who allegedly suffered abuse in the hands of her employers in Kuwait called for justice on Sunday after she died from an illness just 2 weeks after returning home.