Andy Hall (activist)

Andrew Jonathan Hall (born October 30, 1979 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England) is a lawyer and a migration expert in South East Asia. He is based in Bangkok, Thailand. Hall has LL.B – 1st Class Honours Degree from University College London. He studied for a PhD from the Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS) at Cardiff University, Wales and at the Criminology Department at the University of Melbourne. His thesis was looking at proposals to develop occupational health and safety (OHS) laws relating to organisational criminal responsibility for industrial deaths but he took leave of his PhD to assist migrant workers in Thailand.[1]

In early 2013 Hall was sued by Natural Fruit Company following the publication of the Finnwatch report "Cheap Has a High Price".[2] Hall had interviewed workers for the report, some of whom were undocumented migrants and reported poor working conditions, unlawfully low wages, confiscation of official documents, use of child labour and excessive overtime. Altogether Natural Fruit has brought four cases against Hall, for alleged defamation and computer crimes. Several human rights organisations and trade unions have condemned Natural Fruit's actions as judicial harassment and an attempt to silence a human rights defender, and called for the cases to be dropped.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Andy Hall Retrieved 27.12.2015.
  2. ↑ Finnwatch (21 January 2013) Cheap has a high price: Responsibility problems relating to international private label products and food production in Thailand (Executive summary). Retrieved 31 July 2015.
  3. ↑ See for example Human Rights Watch (19 July 2015) Thailand: End Case Against Migrant Worker Activist Retrieved 31 July 2015; Finnwatch (19 July 2015) Thailand must end harassment of researchers and human rights defenders Retrieved 31 July 2015; International Centre for Trade Union Rights (29 October 2014) Andy Hall: a human rights defender who should never have been prosecuted Retrieved 31 July 2015; Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (last updated 2 September 2014) Thailand: Public support for activist Andy Hall grows; trial for case files by Natural Fruit begins 2 Sept Retrieved 31 July 2015; .

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