OWWA's Cacdac asks U2: Sing a song for OFWs who died in Kuwait

Overseas Workers Welfare Administration chief Hans Leo Cacdac has one request for the Irish band U2: "Please sing one song for Filipina domestic workers who died in Kuwait."

Organized in 1976, the U2 band will have their first gig in Manila on Wednesday evening, and on the eve of their performance,  the band's frontman Bono, hogged Philippine media for making a comment on human rights, which coincided with the 71st anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) on December 10.

Dear @U2, please sing one for Filipina domestic workers who died in Kuwait:

Adelyn Suminao
Joanna Demafelis
Teresa Queddeng
Amy Santiago
Vanessa Esguerra
Liezl Hukdong
Constancia Dayag

To name a few.

— hans leo j. cacdac (@HansLeoCacdac) December 10, 2019

In a soft message to President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Bono said:  "You can't compromise on human rights."

Duterte's administration has been racked by allegations of human rights violations, punctuated by the thousands of deaths in police operations under the war on drugs.

Also, Bono defended press freedom, saying “I probably would have been a journalist if I wasn’t a singer and the safety of journalists is very important, and I think a democracy requires free press.”

A day after Bono made his remarks, OWWA's Cadac made the request for a song for OFWs who died of mysterious circumstances in Kuwait.

Cacdac, along with Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III are at the forefront of efforts in assisting troubled Filipino workers abroad,mostly in the Middle East.

Last February, Bello imposed a temporary deployment ban to Kuwait, stemming from a series mysterious deaths of OFWs in the host country. —LBG, GMA News