[2] In 1981, a bid by Philippine firms to build a $300 million highway to connect Kuwait to Baghdad, Iraq was highly publicized.

[5] Alleged cases of abuse and rape has led to Filipinos making a petition to their government to ban the deployment of domestic help to Kuwait in 2013.

The incident that led to the ban reportedly was when the corpse of a Filipino domestic worker was discovered in a freezer inside a warehouse that had been abandoned since November 2016.

In April 2018, a video showed purported action by Philippine embassy officials rescuing Filipino maids from allegedly abusive employers.

On December 31, 2019, a 26-year-old Overseas Filipino Worker named Jeanelyn Padernal Villavende was killed by the employer's wife, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

[9] A year later, a Kuwaiti Criminal Court sentenced an employer to death, according to Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.[10] On January 21, 2023, 34-year-old[a] domestic helper Jullebee Cabilis Ranara[13] was murdered and her burnt body was found in a middle of the desert.