Syeda Ghulam Fatima
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General Secretary 'Bonded Labour Liberation Front Pakistan' (BLLF)[1]
Syeda Ghulam Fatima | |
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.jpg) Syeda Ghulam Fatima during the ceremony of Aurora Prize, Leymah Gbowee, Syeda Ghulam Fatima, Vartan Gregorian. She is standing next to John Kerry. | |
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| Citizenship | Pakistani |
| Occupations | Activist, General Secretary 'Bonded Labour Liberation Front Pakistan' (BLLF)[1] |
| Website | bllfpk |
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).[2][3]
Fatima holds a master's degree in Political Science from Punjab University.[4] She has been campaigning for workers' rights and against bonded labour 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 Labour Liberation Front, Fatima has established Freedom Centers where workers can go for protection and legal counsel. She is the elected General Secretary of Bonded Labour Liberation Front Pakistan. Alongside her husband, Fatima runs BLLF from a storefront in Lahore.[5][6]
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.[4] In September 2015, Fatima was awarded a Clinton Global Citizen Award for "leadership in civil society" in New York.[7]
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[8]
