19 October 2012
A
Cambodian woman who escaped slavery, rape and torture will speak at 7 p.m. Monday at Peru State College.
Somaly Mam, a leader in the worldwide anti-trafficking movement, will tell her life story in the College Theatre.
As
a child, Mam’s poor and desperate family sold her into sexual slavery.
Forced to work in a brothel alongside other children, Mam was brutally
tortured and raped on a daily basis. One night she was made to watch as
her best friend was viciously murdered.
Fearing the same fate, Mam escaped her captors and set about building a new life.
In
1996, she established AFESIP (Agir Pour les Femmes en Situation
Precaire or Acting for Women in Desperate Situations), which provides
victims the emotional and economic strength to escape their plight. With
the launch of the Somaly Mam Foundation in 2007, she supports
anti-trafficking organizations and provides victims and survivors with a
platform from which their voices can be heard around the world.
She is the author of “The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine.”
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