The death of Jeanelyn Villavende, an Overseas Filipino Worker in Kuwait, was established to have occurred in late December 2019.
The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) issued a statement on December 30, 2019, condemned the killing of Filipino domestic worker in Kuwait.
This followed the death of another worker Joanna Demafelis which started a diplomatic crisis in 2018 between Kuwait and the Philippines which ended in a labor agreement.
[4] Autopsy reports concluded Villavende died on December 28, 2019, from "acute failure of heart and respiration as a result of shock and multiple injuries in the vascular nervous system" and that she sustained repeated beatings and rape.
Likewise the Philippine Department of Labor and Employment led by secretary Silvestre Bello III condemned the killing.