Patima Tungpuchayakul

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Patima Tungpuchayakul (born around 1970 in the Thai province of Pathum Thani ) is a Thai peace activist. She established the Labor Rights Promotion Network LPN foundation and freed thousands of slaves who worked on ships and remote islands under brutal conditions and without wages for the fishing industry. Patima Tungpuchayakul's work is the focus of the 2018 documentary Ghost Fleet .

Life

Patima Tungpuchayakul grew up north of Bangkok. She studied humanities and social sciences at the University of Maha Sarakham and graduated in 1996. Her commitment to human rights began when she discovered that in factories near her migrants were working in inhumane conditions. In 2008 she contributed to legislation that explicitly made forced prostitution and human trafficking a criminal offense for the first time . In the greeted fishing port of Thailand, Samut Sakhon , she and her husband Sampong Srakaew set up a facility to protect migrants. As a result of this campaign, they received work permits and were paid the minimum wage. Immigrant children came to school and medical care was provided.

Without government support, Patima Tungpuchayakul started looking for enslaved men working on fishing boats on ships in August 2014. By October 2016, it freed three thousand such victims from the Thai fishing industry. Many had been in chains since childhood, held in cages on islands, and subjected to beatings and torture. Many of the men she found had entered slavery so young that they could no longer remember their hometowns and parents.

Although the government says there is no such thing as overfishing and human trafficking, Human Rights Watch and other nongovernmental agencies found that in 2013 between 17% and 25% of those in the fishing industry were working in slave-like conditions who did not speak the language or none Had money for a work permit.

Patima Tungpuchayakul received several awards, such as the 2018 Jairo Mora Sandoval Bravery Award. Their story is told in the documentary film Ghost Fleet, produced by Shannon Service and Jeffrey Waldron in 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This Fearless Woman Is Fighting To Keep Slavery Out Of Your Seafood. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Reuters: Activist: Thailand needs neighbors' help to crack down on slavery at sea. In: Free Malaysia Today. June 5, 2019, Retrieved July 15, 2019 (American English).
  3. ↑ Award Winners. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Ghost Fleet. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Tungpuchayakul, Patima
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Thai peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Pathum Thani , Thailand