Human trafficking is one of the the biggest problems in today's world. We can try to contain it within the United States, but it is one of the most lucrative industries in the world. Women are being forced into prostitution at a young age, and are bound for their lives.
Somaly Mam is one of the main people trying to bring down this industry. She runs her own foundation, that helps women in Cambodia. Her foundation has saved countless women from a terrible life. In Cambodia, virgins and young girls are available to anyone willing to ask a few questions. Her foundation raids the brothels and brings in the girls to shelters that are run by the foundation. The shelters provide education and job skills to women that were, often times, raised in the brothels. She is now working on international connections, that could help her apply pressure to the government to put more laws and controls in place.
Somaly has also experienced this life. She grew up as an orphan and was adopted by a man who later sold her to a brothel owner. She ran away from the place, and when she went to the place they gang raped her. The police officers then returned her to the brothel where she was beaten and humiliated for leaving. She was eventually rescued by a French aid worker, who she later married.
Somaly Mam is releasing her memoir titled "The Road to Loss Innocence" in the United States. It reflects on her life while growing up in the brothel, and her fight now to prevent that life for other girls.
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