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Issariya Praithongyaem is a highly experienced, award‑winning journalist based between Paris, London, and Bangkok. Over more than a decade with the BBC World Service, she produced documentaries and led investigations across Southeast Asia, Israel, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Her documentary Israel’s Forgotten Thai Workers received an Amnesty International Thailand Award for its groundbreaking reporting. She is a regular commentator on BBC World Service programmes, offering in‑depth analysis on Thai current affairs. In addition to her reporting, she has contributed to media development worldwide by training journalists in developing countries through BBC Media Action.
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A year-long BBC investigation has discovered widespread abuse of Thai nationals living and working in Israel - under a scheme organised by the two governments.
Many are subjected to unsafe working practices and squalid, unsanitary living conditions. Some are overworked, others underpaid and there are dozens of unexplained deaths.
Twenty years ago the half-naked body of a Thai woman was found by walkers in a remote part of the Yorkshire Dales in England. The autopsy proved inconclusive, and an inquest failed to reveal how she died.
For over a decade her identity remained unknown, her body buried in a grave marked ‘The Lady of the Hills’. The thirty-six-year-old was one of thousands of Thai women who marry foreign men every year. In 2016, after a review, her case was reopened as a homicide investigation. Why is her family still waiting for answers?
