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Human Rights Advocate Somaly Mam Speaks on Campus
Somaly Mam, founder of the Somaly Mam Foundation goes into detail about her personal experiences as a survivor of forced prostitution for Daily Bruin Radio. Somaly urges students to visit her website somaly.org in order to read testimonials, look at pictures and learn how to save lives.
By Eunice Kim for The Daily Bruin
The Sept. 30, 2009, event featuring Somaly Mam was sponsored by the UCLA School of Law International Human Rights Program, the Asia Institute, LexisNexis, the Public Interest Law and Policy Program, the International Human Rights Student Association, and the UCLA Journal for International Law and Foreign Affairs.
Listen to the Daily Bruin interview.
Learn more at Somaly Mam's website.
Date Posted: 10/2/2009
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Asia Institute's 2009 Public Lecture Series Steeped in History: The Art of Tea is held in conjunction with the UCLA Fowler exhibition also titled, Steeped in History
View events from this series
Tea and Chinese Cultural Aesthetics
Podcast of public lecture by Pei-kai Cheng, Chinese Civilisation Centre, City University of Hong Kong
From Elephants to Tea: The Nilgris Under Colonial Rule
Podcast of public lecture by Sanjay Subrahmanyam at the Fowler Museum at UCLA as part of the Steeped in History: The Art of Tea exhibit.
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