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The road of lost innocence Somaly Mam with Ruth Marshall.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York Spiegel & Grau 2008.Edition: 1st editionDescription: viii, 193 pages 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780385526210
  • 0385526210
Uniform titles:
  • Silence de l'innocence. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.76 092 MAM
Contents:
The forest The village "This is your husband" Aunty Nop Aunty Peuve Foreigners The French embassy France Kratie New beginnings Guardian angels The Prince of Asturias and the village of Thlok Chhrov AFESIP The victims.
Summary: 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.

"Originally published in France as Le silence de l'innocence by Editions Anne Carrière, Paris, in 2005"--T.p. verso.

The forest The village "This is your husband" Aunty Nop Aunty Peuve Foreigners The French embassy France Kratie New beginnings Guardian angels The Prince of Asturias and the village of Thlok Chhrov AFESIP The victims.

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.

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