By Mindelle Jacobs
Winnipeg Sun
Occasionally, an extraordinary book comes along with the potential to galvanize people into reaching beyond their own little spheres to help someone impoverished elsewhere in the world.
That book is Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, a passionate clarion call to help stop the brutal oppression of females in the developing world.
Undoubtedly, you have read plenty of chilling statistics on the extent of the human rights violations girls and women suffer. But nothing you have read can possibly prepare you for the shocking, gut-wrenching, yet ultimately uplifting true stories in Half the Sky.
There is Srey, a Cambodian girl who is forced by gangsters to work in a brothel in Malaysia. When she escapes, a police officer sells her to a trafficker who hands her over to a Thai whorehouse.
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