Charimaya Tamang

Charimaya Tamang
Awards 2011 Hero Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery Award by US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

Charimaya Tamang is recipient of Hero Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery Award 2011,[1][2][3] founder of Shakti Samuha which has been awarded with Ramon Magsaysay Award 2013. She was sold to India when she was 16 years to work in brothel as a sex worker. She spent 22 months in a brothel before the Indian government rescued her along with over 200 other Nepali women in 1996. Upon her return to Nepal, Tamang was ostracised by her community.[4] Later in 2000, Tamang and 15 other survivors established Shakti Samuha, an anti-trafficking NGO.

Awards

  • 2011 Hero Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery Award by US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • National Gorimaya Woman Genius Award[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://nepal.usembassy.gov/ep-06-27-2011.html
  2. ↑ http://www.scnfamily.org/news/index.php?id=5738086491875536166
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-01-09. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
  4. ↑ http://www.ekantipur.com/2011/06/29/top-story/us-honours-nepali-woman-for-heroic-act/336470.html
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2013-08-17.


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