for children, the elderly and managing household duties. Among the biggest issues that affected domestic workers and was clear in its absence during the pandemic was the lack of labour inspection and monitoring mechanism for domestic work due to social reservations in destination countries. This led to several domestic workers turning undocumented or staying so; their return was dependent upon their access to Missions. MFA would like to stress that with regard to migrant women workers, the vital action is of removing the risk from work rather than removing the worker from a risky situation, the onus of which falls upon regulatory and monitoring bodies of labour migration within the country of destination. 2021 is the 10th anniversary of the adoption of C189 Domestic Workers Convention. COD and COO must ratify this convention as a step towards ensuring and enabling protection based upon global benchmarks and not subjective policymaking. Apart from domestic work, female migrants in the fields of hospitality, sanitation, and other sectors such as ‘beauty workers’ at salons and spas, hairdressers, etc. were reported as being affected by wage theft. Domestic workers were also not prioritised in testing and vaccination policies of destination countries, despite being at risk from the employer’s family members. In many cases, origin countries have been wilfully ignorant of ground realities of abuse that occurs at the place of work, thereby dehumanizing the female migrant worker and removing her from accessing her human and labour rights. Women's decommodification strategies will require additional affirmative action as traditional indexes reflect a male-breadwinner bias as unemployment, pensions and insurance benefits are accessible only to full-time employed workers. For female migrant workers and returnees that faced wage theft, job losses and severe forms of abuse and exploitation, women's access to welfare is only through the husband or other paid worker's family income. (Nakray, 2021) 27