MY DISCUSSION/RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSION First and foremost, we would like to thank Ruth Wedgwood, Edward B.

Burling Professor ofInternational Law and Diplomacy and director of the International Law and Organizations Programat The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), for her continuedsupport and vision, without which the SAIS International Human Rights Clinic would not be possible.We would also like to thank Julia Braunmiller, director of legal affairs at The Protection Project, forguiding the clinical project development and for supervising, compiling, organizing, and editing this report.We would also like to recognize the students of the Spring 2013 International Human RightsClinicJulie Louise Aaserud, Miriam DOnofrio, Kelly Flanagan, Benjamin Kalt, Veronica Ko, KristoffKohlhagen, and Stanley Seiden for their valuable contributions and dedication to the research for thisreport, including their work on the fact-finding missions to the Philippines and Kuwait and their papersubmissions that addressed the different issues covered herein.We deeply appreciate all of our interview partners in Manila and Kuwait City who devoted the timeto meet with us, especially representatives of the Philippines Overseas Workers Welfare Administration;the Overseas Labor Office at the Embassy of the Philippines, Kuwait; the Embassy of the Philippines,Washington, DC; the Philippine Government Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking; the Blas F.Ople Policy Center and Training Institute; the Center for Migrant Advocacy; the GABRIELA NationalAlliance of Womens Organizations in the Philippines; the Institute for Migration and DevelopmentIssues; Migrante International; the Migration Policy Institute; the Scalabrini Migration Center; the LaborRelations Administration at the Kuwait Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor; the Office of Domestic Workers Affairs at the Kuwait Ministry of Interior; the Industrial Bank of Kuwait; Kabe Human RightsSociety, the Kuwaiti Association of the Basic Evaluators of Human Rights; the Legal Group Al-Khashti,Al-Qallaf, Khuraibut; the Kuwait University College of Law, and Political Science Department; theKuwait International Law School; the Holy Family Cathedral Parish, Kuwait City; the Kuwait SocialWork Society; the Asian Development Bank; the International Organization for Migration offices in thePhilippines and Kuwait; and the International Labour Organization offices in Beirut and Kuwait City.