Syeda Ghulam Fatima
Pakistani human and labor rights activist
Syeda Ghulam Fatima is a Pakistani human and labour rights activist, known for her work in ending bonded labour in brick kilns, and is General Secretary of Lahore-based Bonded Labour Liberation Front Pakistan (BLLF).
Biography
Fatima holds a master's degree in Political Science from Punjab University. She has been campaigning for workers' rights and against bonded labor in Pakistani brick factories, commonly referred to as kilns. She has been threatened, attacked, and wounded because of her activism. Through her organization, the Bonded Labor Liberation Front, Fatima has established Freedom Centers where workers can go for protection and legal counsel. She is the elected General Secretary of Bonded Labor Liberation Front Pakistan. Alongside her husband, Fatima runs BLLF from a storefront in Lahore.
She helped to release more than 80,000 bonded laborers in Pakistan from all provinces since her engagement, and trained more than 600 women in alternative skills for poverty reduction. In September 2015, Fatima was awarded a Clinton Global Citizen Award for "leadership in civil society" in New York.
In March 2016 Fatima was one of four finalists nominated for the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, an award given to humanitarians in memory of the Armenian genocide
Media coverage
In August 2015, Fatima and the Bonded Labor Liberation Front received international attention when they were featured in a 7-part series by the popular internet photojournalism Facebook page, Humans of New York.
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