Sujintana Hemtasilpa, the Project Director of Fostering Accountability in Recruitment for Fishery Workers (FAIR Fish) Project at Plan International, is a results-based project management professional with experience in interventions on Business and Human Rights, the prevention and reduction of child labor, forced labor and human trafficking, and citizen engagement in governance.
The FAIR Fish Project, funded by the US Department of Labor, aims to reduce forced labor and human trafficking (FL/HT) in the recruitment of migrant workers in the seafood processing sector in Thailand. The project started in January 2019, and will end in December 2024. The project worked with subject matter experts, pilot seafood processing companies and pilot recruitment agencies to develop a responsible recruitment model, which is a form of human rights due diligence process, that can help employers in Thai seafood processing industry and recruiters set up their own human rights due diligence process to minimize their companies’ risks related to labor exploitation, particularly child labor, forced labor and human trafficking.
Also known as Jin, she is a print journalist turned development professional, with more than 15-year experience in newsrooms of daily English newspaper editorials in Bangkok, more than ten years of experience on development project implementation and management, and more than 13 years of experience in international cooperation environment. Over the past eight years, her work has been closely related to the supply chains of seafood processing industry in Thailand.
Jin is a Fulbright scholar. She holds a Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in New York, a Master of Arts in Social Work Studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury in the United Kingdom, and a post-graduate certificate in Business and Human Rights from the University of Bergen in Norway.
