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Somaly Mam
Born in a Cambodian village, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather at age twelve. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. She suffered the brutality and horrors of human trafficking--rape, torture, deprivation--until she managed to escape with the help of a French aid worker. Emboldened by her newfound freedom, education, and security, Somaly blossomed but remained haunted by the girls in the brothels she left behind. This book tells the story of her awakening as an activist and her harrowing and brave fight against the powerful and corrupt forces that steal the lives of these girls. She has built shelters, started schools, and founded an organization that has so far saved more than four thousand women and children in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos.--From publisher description.A Cambodian woman sold into sexual slavery at the age of twelve describes the horrors she experienced until she managed to escape, and her role as an activist and advocate for the victimized young women whom she has rescued from the region's brothels.
Fremdsprachige Bücher
Spiegel & Grau
Englisch
193
2008-08-31
9780385526210
978-0-385-52621-0
