MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday called on countries in the Middle East to treat overseas Filipino workers with respect amid troubling reports of abuses and suicides. “Can I ask you now to treat my countrymen as human beings with dignity?” Duterte said in a press conference before departing for India for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations-India Special Commemorative Summit. He, however, did not clarify if the total ban will also apply to other Middle Eastern nations. “I hope I’m not committing diplomatic faux pas but one more incident of Filipina worker being raped there [or] committing suicide, I’m going to stop. I’m going to ban.

Source: Philippine Star January 24, 2018 07:07 UTC