Dubai, UAE The new employment contract which was signed on March 2, 2021 by Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Usec. Claro Arellano of the Philippines, and Saif Ahmed Alsuwaidi, undersecretary of Human Resources and Emiratisation. The trafficking of Filipina domestic helpers via Dubai has been going on for the past four decades, with the destination countries of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Jordan having been banned for deployment by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), Migration expert Manny Geslani said. He estimates that over 120,000 Filipina domestic helpers reached those destinations from 2007 to 2020, with the majority of the women arriving in Lebanon after the Lebanon-Isareli war of 2006.