Charimaya Tamang

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 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.

Charimaya Tamang
Awards2011 Hero Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery Award by US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

Media

Charimaya ("Anu") Tamang story appeared for the fist time in 1999 in the Spanish monthly magazine Planeta Humano, "Girl child-trafficking. Anu Tamang's fight against prostitution in Nepal".[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 activism as anti-trafficking activist.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-07-27. Retrieved 2013-08-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  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.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  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.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. Alvarez, Chelo (February 1999). "Tráfico de niñas. La lucha de Anu Tamang contra la prostitución en Nepal" [Girl child-trafficking. Anu Tamang's fight against prostitution in Nepal]. Planeta Humano (in Spanish). Madrid. 12. ISSN 4130042 125686 8 4130042 125686 Check |issn= value (help).
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