Ⅲ. Trafficked Migrant Women Domestic Workers Situation As warned by ILO, although migration for the purposes of work can be an empowering experience for some women from traditional societies, it can also lead them into situations of abuse and exploitation. Women migrant workers may be victims of “double discrimination” – as migrant workers and as women. Attention must be paid to protecting women from the problems and conditions they can face, such as sexual exploitation, violence and trafficking, and to the conditions of certain forms of work held predominantly by women migrant workers, such as domestic work.18) The exploitation of female migrants trafficked into sex industry and sexually and economically exploited has been documented unlike the case of migrant women trafficked into domestic work that is more insidious because of the private spaces where this takes place and sheer difficulty of gathering statistics of the number involved. As rightly observed by the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CMW), migrant domestic workers suffer discrimination, not only because they belong to a group with low status in society but also because they are non‐nationals. Often they are engaged in irregular work without a contract; employers don’t usually pay social security contributions for their workers and sometimes salaries are withheld. Conditions of work are often difficult, with excessively long working hours. The irregular migration status of many migrant domestic workers makes them more vulnerable to abuse, including sexual abuse. Employers very often confiscate the identity documents of migrant domestic workers. It was remarked that women, who constitute the majority of migrant domestic workers, suffer a further vulnerability to abuse and have often no access to justice or other forms of assistance.19) Recent studies20) to this ugly phenomenon indicate that women formed the bulk o f those trapped in this situation and suffer untold abuse‐ physically and psychologically. They are held in domestic servitude and forced labour. Globally trafficking of migrant domestic workers is growing in scale and is a multi‐ billion dollar business, for which the demand and supply is not in short fall. The services of migrant domestic workers are widely used even in diplomatic circles making it extremely difficult to eradicate. In a story covered by Sunday Independent Newspaper titled‐“Diplomat's nanny lifts lid 18) See ILO, International labour migration. A rights‐based approach Geneva, International Labour Office, 2010 p. 94 19) Report of the Day of General Discussion on Migrant Domestic Workers‐ See CMW/C/11/2 ‐29 October 2009 20) ILO, Decent work for domestic workers (2009) 8 ❙ Seoul International Conference Against Human Trafficking in Migrant Women