ประชากรหญิงผู้สร้างแรงบันดาลใจจากการทำงานช่วยเหลือทางกฎหมายแก่ผู้เสียหายจากความรุนแรงด้วยเหตุแห่งเพศ
Award by the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security’s Department of Women’s Affairs and Family Institutions.
According to the World Health Organization, one out of three women experiences physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner at some point in her life. It’s a widespread and silent epidemic — especially in Thailand, where domestic violence is viewed as a normal part of society and culture.
Regularly blasted on local news headlines are gruesome and horrific acts of unjustified gender-based violence. Last year alone, we saw a man beating his girlfriend live on Facebook; a man arrested for beating his pregnant wife and mutilating her body; and, most controversial of all, a man murdering his newly wedded wife, in a fit of jealous rage, by pouring acid into her mouth while she slept.
I know this all too well, as a women’s rights advocate, human rights lawyer and a survivor of violence who had to bring my own case in front of the Thai justice system.
After I received a degree in law, I left Bangkok and moved to the north of the country to support marginalized people along the Thai/Myanmar border. That is where it all happened. I was physically abused by my ex-partner in a place hundreds of miles away from my family.
Shero Thailand, a non-profit organization which aims to eliminate gender-based violence in Thailand, launched the Lawyers for Women’s Rights (LWR) network on 29 January 2022 to train lawyers to provide legal aid and advocate for survivors of gender-based violence.