Noulmook Sutdhibhasilp

Asia/Canada: Mobile Populations

March 11, 2010
1455 De Maisonneuve West
H-110, 6PM
FREE ADMISSION

Noulmook Sutdhibhasilp is the Executive Director of the Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS), a non-profit community-based organization serving East and Southeast Asian populations in Ontario. For the past few years Sutdhibhasilp has been working extensively in promoting the human rights of migrant workers; particularly those of Asian migrant sex workers; as well as critically looking at the issue of trafficking in women from migrant workers’ rights perspectives. She received a PhD in Adult Education and Community Development from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. In the past she served as researcher for the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (Canada), and the Multicultural History Society of Ontario. In Thailand, Sutdhibhasilp worked for CIDA’s Women Economic and Leadership Development Program. Her latest project at ACAS is to develop with a team of staff and project partners a HIV/STIs/Hepatitis C Prevention Model for Asian Migrant Farm Workers in Ontario.