After the government banned domestic labor in the Gulf countries for a decade, the number of female domestic workers in those countries has been found to be increasing. In 2073, the government banned going to Gulf countries as domestic workers citing security reasons.

According to the instructions given by the International Relations and Labor Committee of the Parliament on 20 Chait 2073, the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security banned the work permit for domestic workers.

However, the on-site study of the Nepalese embassies in those countries has shown that human traffickers are sending Nepali women workers through visit visas after the ban on sending workers. The embassies also sent a report to the government with the on-site details of one and a half million Nepali women arriving in the Gulf countries through visit visas. The study has also shown that instead of stopping the flow of women workers due to the

ban, the 'web' of human traffickers has become more dense. The Nepalese embassies in the Gulf countries have repeatedly drawn the attention of the government on this issue. Foreign Minister Arju Rana Deuba, who arrived in Oman on February 6th, in a virtual meeting with the ambassadors of the Gulf, the consul general, suggested that the ambassadors should bring them within the scope of labor approval, saying that there is difficulty in rescuing domestic workers through visit visas. According to separate reports sent by embassies abroad, human traffickers have transported the most women to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kuwait through visit visas. Similarly, the report shows that 60,000 women are working as domestic workers in the UAE, 50,000 in Kuwait, 10,000 in Oman, and 20,000 in Iraq. Similarly, 90 women are waiting for rescue in the shelter of Kuwait alone. The number of domestic female workers sent to Saudi Arabia is not certain . 

Durga Sarki from Baglung, who came to Saudi Arabia on a visit visa from Nepal, said that she was forced to come to work in the Saudi home. I have been working in Saudi Arabia for two and a half years. Sahuni takes me with her mother (Kuwait) every now and then. I came after arranging the visa," she said. "After being able to come here, my children have been able to study. I have spent it .' 

Reena Tamang from Sindhupalchok, who reached Kurdistan in Iraq, said that Nepali women and brothers will be found all over Kurdistan. All the sisters of the village are here on holiday. There is nothing to fear. It is sure to work. I am paying a salary of four hundred dollars every month. I have been able to educate my two daughters by keeping them in Kathmandu', she said on the telephone, 'What happens if the government just imposes restrictions? There are many ways to come here.' Nepali people are coming.'

According to labor migration experts, regular smuggling of women workers has increased in the Gulf countries due to the government's ban. According to the National Human Rights Commission, when there is a system of sending domestic workers institutionally, women are falling into the trap of trafficking. The commission has repeatedly written to the government to remove the discriminatory preconditions issued for domestic workers and implement special security measures in the destination country.

According to Vinod Shrestha, President of Non-Resident Nepali Association, Iraq, 30,000 Nepalis are working in Arwil, Sulaimani and other places of Kurdistan state alone. 75 percent of them are women . And most of them are employed as domestic workers. He also said that it is necessary to organize instead of banning.

According to the Non-Resident Nepali Association, Kuwait, the number of female workers has increased over the past year. According to the law of Kuwait, there is a rule that the manpower company can take 750 Kuwaiti dinars from the employer for bringing in one domestic worker. After setting this fee, the local manpower agency and Nepalese agents are sending the women workers to Kuwait by 'setting' them at the airport. Now there are only 90 women in government shelters in Kuwait. They ran away after getting into trouble. Placed in a shelter in Kuwait at the request of the embassy . They are in the process of returning home," an official of the Nepali Embassy in Kuwait told Kantipur. "The ban alone did not stop domestic workers from coming. The government should think about institutionalizing it.'

Similarly, according to the Nepalese embassy in Oman, 15 to 37 women who arrived in Oman through Dubai on a visit visa come seeking shelter every month. The embassy has rescued two hundred women and sent them to Nepal in the last one year. "According to the women who come to the Nepalese embassy for some special purpose or come to the shelter of the Nepalese embassy because of a problem, some women come to work as domestic workers out of their own free will and some women are told that they were brought to Oman by false assurances/temptations by the agents," said the embassy's recently sent quarterly report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Therefore, it is important to address it in time.' 

According to Kisan Pradhan, president of Domestic Workers Concern Society, 50 to 100 female domestic workers are forced to choose illegal routes every day. "Smuggling continues until it is sent legally", he said, "We have seen that there are various illegal routes." So the road should be opened officially. We can take responsibility for security.

The Ministry of Labor had implemented the Guideline, 2072 on sending domestic workers to 40 countries including the Gulf countries. Currently, this directive is only implemented in Jordan and Cyprus. Since 2073, the parliamentary committee has been taking the stand of not sending domestic workers unless there is a labor agreement regarding domestic workers with the destination country. On October 13, 2077, after the Finance and Commerce and Labor and Consumer Committees of the Parliament returned from studying Oman, Saudi Arabia and UAE, the committee was giving 7 points regarding the management of domestic workers. In which the destination countries should make separate laws for domestic workers, labor agreements should be made with those countries, strong mechanisms should be made to implement them, domestic workers should be given skills and language training in the country, and it should be ensured that there is no discrimination between workers.

On August 26 and 27, 2080, it was decided to manage domestic workers in a high-level meeting held with ambassadors under the chairmanship of the then Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal. In order to finalize the proposed draft for the 2072 amendment of the Directive on Sending Domestic Workers to Foreign Employment in compliance with the directives of the Parliamentary Committee, the relevant commission head shall submit national standards including national standards to protect domestic workers from domestic violence within 15 days. The decision states, "The Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security will initiate a labor contract to ensure that the standards are addressed on a national basis." He said that he is preparing to do a 'pilot project' with the UAE to bring the arrangement within the legal framework. "Prohibition imposed on domestic workers will not solve any problem." It is because of this prohibition that women are going to the Gulf region for domestic work through illegal routes. A bilateral agreement and a protocol regarding domestic workers have already been signed with the UAE," Labor Minister Bhandari said in a parliamentary committee meeting on May 25. According to the instructions of the committee, the Ministry of Labor has advanced the protocol of the pilot project.

After the labor agreement with the UAE in June 2019, the first bilateral meeting of Nepal and the UAE held on 3-4 November 2019 agreed to make a protocol related to domestic workers. The second bilateral meeting held on May 32 last year decided to give a minimum wage of 400 dollars (52 thousand rupees) for domestic workers in Nepal.

Minister of Labor Bhandari is preparing to do a pilot project with the UAE based on the instructions given by the committee to guarantee the safety of domestic workers  Said done. According to him, 5,000 women workers will be sent as a "pilot project" in the first phase. The minimum salary of domestic workers is set at 400 dollars. 24-hour insurance has been arranged," he said, "if this model goes ahead, the way to send women to other countries will open up." The Ministry of Law has said that it will give consent for implementation only after the instructions of the parliamentary committee.