Kathmandu, December 15:

High demand of Nepali women for domestic work in Saudi Arabia has given ample opportunity to traffickers as the African countries stopped supplying domestic workers there, says a report prepared by the National Human Rights Commission.

Human smugglers earn at least Rs 400,000 by supplying a domestic worker. Nepali human smugglers have established offices for supplying Nepali domestic workers to Ajman of UAE and Kuwait city. “Although there is no exact data on domestic workers in Gulf countries, it is found that 60 per cent of Nepali domestic workers reach there via Tribhuvan International Airport with the connivance of immigration staff and security personnel,” said the National Report on Trafficking in Persons in Nepal published by the rights body.