Charimaya ("Anu") Tamang is a recipient of the Hero Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery Award 2011,[1][2][3] founder of Shakti Samuha which has been awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award 2013. She was born into a poor family and sold to India when she was 16 years to work in a 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]
Charimaya Tamang | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Nepalese |
| Awards | 2011 Hero Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery Award by US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton |
Later in 2000, Tamang and 15 other survivors established Shakti Samuha, an anti-trafficking NGO.
Awards edit
- 2011 Hero Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery Award by Former US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
- National Gorimaya Woman Genius Award[5]
Media edit
Charimaya ("Anu") Tamang's story appeared for the first time in 1999 in the Spanish monthly magazine Planeta Humano, "Girl Child-trafficking. When No Means Never Again".[6]
In 2003, her story was further developed in the documentary film Tin Girls (Niñas de Hojalata), directed by Miguel Bardem, produced by Canal+ Spain and sold to public broadcaster RTVE.
In 2016, the documentary film Sands of Silence: Waves of Courage, directed by Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, featured Anu Tamang reacting to her Hero Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery Award, presented to her by Hillary Clinton in Washington D.C. in 2011, and following her current work as an anti-trafficking activist.
References edit
- ^ "Embassy Programs | Embassy of the United States Kathmandu, Nepal". Archived from the original on 2013-07-27. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
- ^ "News | Sisters of Charity of Nazareth".[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Nepali achievers in international arena". Archived from the original on 2012-01-09. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
- ^ "US honours Nepali woman for heroic act | Top Stories | ekantipur.com". Archived from the original on 2011-06-30. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ "::Gorkhapata::The Rising Nepal::Madhupark::Yubamanch::Muna::". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ Álvarez, Chelo (February 1999). "Tráfico de niñas. Cuando NO significa nunca jamás" [Girl child-trafficking. When NO means never again.]. Planeta Humano (in Spanish). 12. Madrid.