Women Deliver 100: The Most Inspiring People
Delivering for Girls and Women
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, Women Deliver is announcing the “Women Deliver 100,” our list of the hundred most inspiring people who have delivered for girls and women. This list recognizes women and men, both prominent and lesser known, who have committed themselves to improving the lives of girls and women around the world. Honorees derive from the fields of health, human rights, politics, economics, education, journalism, and philanthropy, and represent a great diversity of geographic and cultural backgrounds. The 100 honorees were selected from among hundreds of potentials and feature some of the most intrepid, committed, and results-driven people in the world.
58. Somaly Mam, Cambodia
Founder of AFESIP (Agir Pour les Femmes en Situation Precaire) and the Somaly Mam Foundation
Issue: Sex traffickingHow she delivers for women: Somaly Mam’s story is one of remarkable resilience. An estimated two million women and children are sold into sexual slavery each year. In the 1980s, Mam was one of them. Orphaned during the Khmer Rouge, she was forced into prostitution as a child, enduring torture and abuse before finally escaping to France with the help of a local aid worker. She returned to Cambodia in 1996 to found AFESIP, a network of shelters for victims of sex-trafficking across Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. Her shelters have supported thousands of women and girls, offering education and job-skills training while working with police to
help others escape the brothels. In 2007, she created the Somaly Mam Foundation to support anti-trafficking efforts worldwide. Mam and her family have been repeatedly threatened and attacked for her work, but she has remained an unyielding crusader against the sex trade.
Learn More:http://www.somaly.org/about-smf/somaly-mam
88. Mu Sochua, Cambodia
Member of Parliament and human rights advoca
ssue: Gender equality and human rightsHow she delivers for women: Forced to flee Cambodia as a teenager, Sochua returned after years in exile to face the consequences of the Khmer Rouge: girls sold into prostitution to support impoverished families, widespread corruption, and no female representation in government. Sochua founded the country’s first NGO for women, Khemara, which provides education, childcare, emergency shelter and other essential services to girls and women. She became a Member of Parliament and then the first female Minister of Women’s and Veteran’s Affairs, one of only two women in thecabinet. In 2002, she mobilized 12,000 women to run for local elections, and over 900 won. In 2004, she stepped down as Minister, decrying government corruption, and now serves as a member of parliament for the opposition. In the face of overwhelming obstacles, Sochua has over and over again proven herself a champion of Cambodia’s women.
Learn more:http://musochua.org
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