Sutharee Wannasiri

Sutharee Wannasiri participated in DTP’s 21^st Annual Program in Timor-Leste in 2011. As a member of Accountability Counsel’s Communities team, Sutharee works to support communities in the Asia region to access justice for human rights and environmental abuses using accountability offices tied to international finance. Based in Bangkok, Sutharee accompanies our existing community case partners in Myanmar, Nepal, and India, while supporting new cases and knowledge sharing.

Sutharee is a passionate human rights and social justice advocate who comes to Accountability Counsel with extensive working experience in research, public policy, advocacy, and community mobilisation. Her educational background is in international relations, politics, and human rights law and practice. She has worked with national and international non-profit and human rights organisations to monitor and document policy development, human rights, environmental justice, corporate accountability, and labour rights protections in Thailand and Southeast Asia. She has worked with grassroots and local communities including environmental defenders and migrant workers to demand economic justice and accountability for the past decade.

Sutharee was working as a Policy and Advocacy Coordinator for Amnesty International Thailand when she participated in the DTP program and then worked with the UN’s regional OHCHR office in Bangkok focused on the prevention of torture and monitoring the conflict in southern Thailand.

Sutharee found the DTP training program to be very useful in her work as a human rights specialist.

“As a researcher, the legal instruments and human rights mechanism provided to participants during the 3-week training program have been useful and gives a fresh perspective to my existing knowledge and ideas.”

“I am still in touch with a few activists I’ve met during the program although we have not find a chance to work together but they are still good contact, personally and professionally.”