![]() ![]() ![]() Its goals are to save and socially reintegrate people who are victims of the sex slave trade. Since then, her international foundation has worked in Thailand, Vietnam and Laos. In 1997, along with her former French husband, Pierre Legros, Mam created the AFESIP (Agir pour les Femmes en Situation Précaire-Acting for Women in Distressing Circumstances) in Cambodia. By the age of 30 Somaly Mam had become an international spokesperson for women and children tortured in the brothels of Southeast Asia. One night she witnessed the murder by a pimp of close friend and, at this moment, made it her mission to escape and find a way to halt the practice of child sex slavery. Mam, born into a Cambodian family struggling through poverty, was sold into sexual slavery as a child by her grandfather. She was named Glamour's Woman of the Year in 2006. Somaly Mam is the cofounder of AFESIP ( Acting for Women in Distressing Situations) in Cambodia and The Somaly Mam Foundation in the United States, whose goal is to save and socially reintegrate victims of sexual slavery in Southeast Asia. ![]() Principe de Asturias for International Cooperation, 1998-īoth of Spain Regis University Honorary Doctorate of Year, 2006 Olympic flag bearer, Torino, 2006 Heroes ofĪnti-Trafficking Award, US State Department Mimosa d'OroĪward Festival du Scoop Prize, France ExcmoĪyuntaniento de Galdar Concejalia de Servicio Sociale, and ![]() Sweden, 2008 CNN Hero, USA Glamour Woman of the
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