The 8th day of the month of March every year is an important day to our society. For this day, we honor , appreciate and give more value to the contributions of the women around the world in building the society. Despite of the valuable contributions in the different strata of the society, most of the rights of women remain unrecognized by the patriarchal community . A lot of women especially in the Asia Pacific region experience difficulties. Take for example, that mothers are in charged of taking care of the family and all its difficulties but they were never involved in making major decisions.

In the Asia Pacific like Philippines, 55% of the of more than 10 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) are women. Remittances sent to Philippines by the migrant workers costs a total of US$28 billion. Most of the women working abroad are domestic helpers to Singapore, Hong Kong and Middle East. While Indonesia sent 283,640 migrant workers abroad in 2018. Of that number 198,975 are female and 150,000 of them are migrant domestic workers. Thismakes Indonesia one of themajor sources of migrant domestic workers in the world. In 2018, they sent US$8.8 Billion back to Indonesia in remittances. That's equivalent to almost 1% of Indonesia's total Gross Domestic Product (GDP). On the contrary from their contribution at least 103 Indonesian migrant workers have been sentenced to death since 2011, including 13 Saudi Arabia. India also tops the world in the number of migrants sent abroad, with over 17 million living in the Gulf. Unregistered agents are successful in luring though malpractices and corruption.

uneducated women into migrating to Gulf States such as Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar. Systemic loopholes and diplomatic fault- lines enable the ex-ploitation of these women to prevail

For instance, on reaching the Gulf countries, travel documents are imme-diately seized by agents, denying workers the agency to inspect the credibility of the promised work and thereby leaving them at the mercy of those agencies.

Women are often pushed into unsafe employment or abject poverty in the absence of any employment at all, resulting in their further disempower-ment. Ironically, women often choose domestic work abroad in order to es-cape the abuse they face from their husband at home. Migration can be a way to improve their social status through their acknowledgement as the breadwinners of their families. It is es-timated that more than 45 foreign do-mestic workers are facing execution on death row in Saudi Arabia, according to Amnesty International. Most of these are from Indonesia, but activist and human rights groups say there are also domestic workers from Sri Lanka, Philippines, India and Ethiopia who are facing the death penalty.

In Pakistan culture, most of the women don't have their absolute rights. In their society they are al-lowed to vote but the patriarchal soci-ety, they are limited in involvement especially in decision making inside their homes and to the communities

While in the post industrial countries like Japan and Australia, women are being pushed to their limits in terms of education and economic realities. International students in Aus-tralia are being subjected to precarious conditions. They can be called the new trends of modern migrant workers in the guise of being international stu-dents. Poverty urged them to engaged in working while studying. To support their needs, they do working in differ-ent establishments despite low wages, lack of social protection and the unas-suring condition that contractualization caused them . Much of their time are given to work instead of focusing on the studies.

The quality of education they must learn is at stake due to lack of focus. Most of the time they have to send money back home to support their family while studying and working in Australia. As a developed country, Japan demands more from it's labor force. This realities affects much of the young people/workers because they cannot balance between the life and work.

Work is a priority in their sphere of life in the industrialized country like Japan. With this environ-ment many young workers experience psychological imbalances that results to a higher rate of suicidal attempts. Despite of the measures made by the respective government to address major problems in each country like poverty, joblessness and the social se-curity for its people, it appears that the root cause of the problem affecting women remains unsolved.

As we commemorate the women's day, let us celebrate the effort and victories in their struggles and de-clare the significance of all women as vital part of our society. Let us contin-uously be with them in their fight to achieve just work and dignified life. Let us be proud and be re-minded that we have mothers, sisters, aunties and cousins that needs to be respected. Both as part of the family and for their labor and human rights, they should be recognized.