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Matcha Phorn-in

Founder and Executive Director, Sangsan Anakot Yawachon Foundation | Fondatrice et directrice générale de la Fondation Sangsan Anakot Yawachon

Matcha is an ethnic minority and/or indigenous lesbian feminist women human rights defender. Matcha Phorn-in has been passionately and committed to work advancing human rights, gender and SOGIESCjustice. She has worked for almost 20 years to empower young people and people from the most marginalised communities, especially LGBTIQAN+, women and children from an indigenous communities that many of them still holding stateless, undocumented refugees.

 

Matcha Phorn-in founded and serves as the Executive Director of Sangsan Anakot Yaowachon Foundation, an organisation that works with young people from indigenous communities living in disaster-prone Thai villages, at the Thailand and Myanmar border and Matcha is also involving and served as a board member of APWLD - Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, a leading network of more than 250 members of feminist organisations and individual activists in Asia and the Pacific. At the global levels, Matcha is involving and served as a co-presidency of International Family Equality Day - IFED, an marriage equality and right to family for LGBTIQAN+ global movement.

 

 

Matcha est une défenseuse des droits humains d'une minorité ethnique et/ou d'une femme féministe lesbienne indigène. Matcha Phorn-in œuvre avec passion et engagement en faveur des droits humains, de l'égalité des sexes et de la justice sociale. Elle travaille depuis près de 20 ans pour autonomiser les jeunes et les personnes issues des communautés les plus marginalisées, en particulier les personnes LGBTIQAN+, les femmes et les enfants issus de communautés indigènes dont beaucoup accueillent toujours des réfugiés apatrides et sans papiers.

 

Matcha Phorn-in a fondé et dirige la Fondation Sangsan Anakot Yaowachon, une organisation qui travaille avec des jeunes issus de communautés autochtones vivant dans des villages thaïlandais sujets aux catastrophes, à la frontière entre la Thaïlande et le Myanmar. Matcha participe également et a siégé au conseil d'administration de l'APWLD (Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development), un réseau de premier plan regroupant plus de 250 membres d'organisations féministes et de militantes individuelles en Asie et le Pacifique. Au niveau mondial, Matcha participe et copréside la Journée internationale de l'égalité des familles, l'IFED, un mouvement mondial pour l'égalité du mariage et le droit à la famille pour les personnes LGBTIQAN+.

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