Awards

  • To acknowledge Syeda Ghulam Fatima General Secretary Bonded Labour Liberation Front Pakistan services she has been honoured with following National and International awards;

Prize for Awakening Humanity, an award given to humanitarians in memory of the Armenian Genocide. 

In March 2016 Fatima was one of four finalists nominated for the Aurora

YEREVAN, ARMENIA – APRIL 24: Nobel Laureate, Liberian peace activist, women’s rights advocate and Aurora Prize Selection Committee Member Leymah Gbowee and Aurora Prize Co-Founder and Selection Committee Member Vartan Gregorian honour finalist Syeda Ghulam Fatima, the General Secretary of the Bonded Labour Liberation Front in Pakistan, at the Aurora Prize ceremony on April 24, 2016 in Yerevan, Armenia. (Photo by Andreas Rentz /Getty Images for 100 Lives)

Clinton Global Citizen Award for “leadership in civil society

NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 27: Syeda Ghulam Fatima attends the Clinton Global Citizen Awards during the second day of the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative’s Annual Meeting at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers on September 27, 2015 in New York City.

Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report Hero 2016

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses for a photo with Syeda Ghulam Fatima of Pakistan, a 2016 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report Hero, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on June 30, 2016. The TIP Report Heroes are nine men and women from around the world who fought against human trafficking. [State Department Photo/ Public Domain]

Syeda Ghulam Fatima is the General Secretary of the Bonded Labour Liberation Front Pakistan (BLLF) and a courageous human rights activist.

She has long campaigned for workers’ rights in Pakistan and, in particular, for the end of bonded labor in brick kilns and factories.  Alongside her husband, Ms. Ghulam Fatima founded and runs the Freedom Campus for Bonded Labour, a center in Lahore that provides care and legal services to victims of forced labor.

Ms. Ghulam Fatima has helped free more than 80,000 bonded laborers in Pakistan, including those working in brick kilns, agriculture, and the carpet industry, often by personally organizing and carrying out their release. Under her leadership, BLLF provides legal aid, shelter, protection, and a way back into society for survivors of forced labor.  Ms. Ghulam Fatima has helped train hundreds of women to enable them to find new livelihoods for themselves and their families, and has been a tireless advocate for legislation and government action to protect victims of human trafficking.

“Aetraf  e Azmat   Award  2015 Islamabad”

she is recipients of “Atraf  e Azmat   Award  2015 Islamabad”, Honoured by Acting President of The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Mr Raza Rabani Chairman Senate in Islamabad .

“Omar Asghar Kahn Award on Labour right” ,

Omar Asghar Khan award on labour right ,The Award hounder In recognition of the work of Syeda Ghulam Fatima for her life long struggle in a seminar organised by NCABL national Coalition against bonded labour .in 2011.

“Benazir Bhutto Award May 2013”,

“Gold medal  by International Chicago Labour Confederation”