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"Girls are taught only shame and ignorance about their bodies and men have their first sexual experience in brothels. Rape is the only thing they know." Photo: AFPAAP
Somaly Mam emerged from a life of sex slavery in Cambodia to become a champion of women's rights and one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people on the planet.
Abandoned by her parents, Mam was raped at 12, forced to marry at 14 and then sold into prostitution.
She suffered years of abuse before escaping with the help of a Medicin Sans Frontieres worker, whom she later married.
Mam has never had any formal schooling, yet she now speaks five languages.
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