Sompong Sakaeo

Director

Labour Rights Promotion Network Foundation

Sompong Srakaew is the Director of the Labour Rights Promotion Network Foundation (LPN) in Thailand. He founded the LPN in 2004 because of the injustices he saw in the treatment of migrant workers in Thailand’s seafood processing industry. Sompong began working on migrant worker issues as early as the 1990s, after graduating with a degree in social work. He comes from a small village near the Cambodian border, and was familiar with cross-border migration for work. After founding LPN, he has diligently pursued justice for migrant workers in Thailand, and attempted to assist them in claiming and asserting their rights. (100 words)