ျပည့္တန္ဆာေတြ စီစဥ္ရုိက္ကူးတ့ဲ ရုပ္ရွင္

ထုိင္းနုိင္ငံ Empower ေဖာင္ေဒးရွင္းက ထုိင္းမွာရိွတ့ဲ အမ်ဳိးသမီးျပည့္တန္ဆာမ်ားအေရး ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနတ့ဲ အဖဲြ႔ပါ။

ဒီလထဲ ဒီအဖဲြ႔ရဲ႕ ရုပ္ရွင္အထူးပဲြကုိ ၾကည့္ရႈဖုိ႔ ဖိတ္ၾကားခ်က္ ရိွပါတယ္။
Last Rescue in SIAM ဆုိတ့ဲ ရုပ္ရွင္ဇာတ္ကား ျပသမွာပါ။ ျပည့္တန္ဆာေတြကုိယ္တုိင္ ရုိက္ကူးစီစဥ္ထားတာလုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။

လာမယ့္ ၂၁၊ ၂၄ ဘန္ေကာက္၊ ခ်င္းမုိင္ျမိဳ႕တုိ႔မွာ ျပသမွာပါ။

ထုိင္းရဲ႕ လူကုန္ကူးမႈတုိက္ဖ်က္ေရးဥပေဒက လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးပုိင္းမွာ ဘယ္လုိ သက္ေရာက္ေနတယ္ ဆုိတာကုိ ျပည့္တန္ဆာ ၂၀၀ ေက်ာ္ရဲ႕ အေတြ႔အႀကဳံေပၚ မူတည္ျပီး ျပဳစုထားတ့ဲ အစီရင္ခံစာ အဲဒီပဲြေတြမွာ ရနုိင္ပါတယ္ တ့ဲ။


empower foundation
57/60 Tivanond Road
Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand
Tel/Fax 025268311
www.empowerfoundation.org

Press Invitation 30 January 2012

Re: Empower Foundation Event: “Hit & Run - Sex workers research on trafficking in Thailand”

21st February 2012, 2 PM – 4:30 PM
Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, Patumwan Intersection (National Stadium BTS) 1st Floor Auditorium

24th February 8-10 pm
CAN - DO Bar, 22 Chiang Mai Land Chiang Mai (bright green and red bar near cross street Chiang Mai Land 4)

Dear Editor,
Empower Foundation is a Thai organization promoting opportunities for women sex worker’s in Thailand. We would like to invite the press to join the launch of our ground breaking exhibition created by sex workers, expressing the lived experience of anti-trafficking measures in Thailand.

BANGKOK EVENT Featuring
• An overview of “Trafficking and the Sex Industry” by the Director of Empower, Chantawipa Apisuk

• The premier screening of Empower film “สาวน้อยผจญภัย - Last Rescue in Siam” This is the first film ever made by sex workers in Thailand. It is a short black and white film made in the tradition of the old silent movies. It invites the audience to see the ridiculous side of the laws enforced on sex workers.

• First public display of the “Mida Tapestry”. This large embroidered artwork was sewn by migrant sex workers as a way to document and show the impact police raids have on their lives. It carries a second message in that sex workers are regularly forced or offered sewing lessons as a cure-all for social ills. The “Mida Tapestry” leaves everyone in no doubt that sex workers are already talented needlewomen!

• “HIT & RUN - Sex worker Research on Trafficking in Thailand” Another first, this document combines the results of 12 months research done by over 200 sex workers on the human rights impact of anti trafficking law across Thailand.

“We have now reached a point in history where there are more women in the Thai sex industry being abused by anti-trafficking practices than there are women being exploited by traffickers” Hit & Run

CHIANG MAI EVENT: Showing of Last Rescue in SIAM, and MIDA TAPESTRY with HIT &RUN report available. We anticipate our audience will include representatives from Thai and international NGO’s, and other members of civil society. There will be ample time to explore the displays, and talk with sex workers many of whom were part of the project and also those who starred in the film.

. Sincerely Yours,

Chantawipa Apisuk
Director