result of foreign remittances sweeping in the country. Sri Lanka, another major workforce contributing state received in 2007 3.4 billion dollars in remittance and people from the Southeastern, Central & Western African regions has received 7 billion dollars from workers returning money they have earned. Government Response A contributing factor to the mistreatment and in some cases the death of the domestic workers is the government response or lack thereof. In Lebanon, when a domestic worker has been abused or killed a police report usually never leads to persecution. The Lebanese government; aware of the problem, has signed treaties, yet it has failed to implement any real policies that can protect the workers in their domestic working environment. Looking at Lebanon's own law on Labour rights, Article 7 Paragraph 1 mentions that domestic workers are exempted from the law, therefore any form of domestic worker is not included in the Labour Law and what it has regulated as rights and duties for workers The government took action into regulating the migrant service business by imposing a law in 2009 aiming for more control on “Migrant Workers Offices,” the law simply demands that such an office would register in the ministry of labour; the law emphasizes on the business owner to be a Lebanese citizen with no previous criminal record. It mentions as well the need to provide a location for the workers to stay in, moreover it is not allowed for the business or its clients to abuse the workers and should there be any disputes, they should be reported to the ministry or the appropriate legal entities. Finally, the law identifies the rights of the worker to days off and the responsibility of the office to return the worker within three months of arrival in Lebanon in case the workers refuse to work, escaped from their working place or in case of pregnancy; the law gives more specifics on the duties of the office with regards to the working states of the workers in Lebanon. Other measurements taken by the government of Lebanon includes adding more regulations to the process of bringing foreign workers into the country. The measurements apply on workers from the state of Madagascar, where no office is allowed to bring workers from Madagascar without the approval of the consulate of Madagascar in Lebanon. The offices then are obliged to present the approval document and the