Wirawan (Boom) Mosby
THA
Founder and Director, Hug Project
Speaker: Partnering for Children's Rights: Unfolding Collaborations, October 21
Founder and Director of the HUG Project Thailand, under the Family Connection Foundation, Boom Mosby is dedicated to preventing, protecting, and restoring child victims of sexual abuse and human- trafficking. In June 2017, she was honored by the U.S. State Department as a TIP Report Hero as part of their 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report. Ms. Mosby is the first Thai woman to receive this distinction. EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS Career highlights include the opening of Child Advocacy Center (CAC) in Chiang Mai - the first children's advocacy center in Southeast Asia- which she now directs; and the formation of TICAC (Thailand Internet Crimes Against Children) task force- in which she participates actively. As a TICAC member, Ms. Mosby collaborates with law enforcement and other agencies to facilitate the investigation and prosecution of Internet-facilitated crimes against children in Thailand. TICAC and CAC were mentioned in the TIP Report three years in a row. Her latest efforts include of the formation of TATIP (Thailand Anti Trafficking in Persons Taskforce) working with Thai law enforcement and related government sectors in protecting victim of human trafficking utilizing victim centric approach.