Read an eye-opening opinion piece in the SF Chronicle written by GFW VP of Programs, Shalini Nataraj, about the political corruption in Cambodia.  Shalini traveled to Cambodia last week and met with Mu Sochua, a member of the Cambodian Parliament in the opposition party and a women’s rights activist who will be going to court for publicly standing up to the Prime Minister.

GFW board member Mu Sochua, a former Nobel Peace Prize nominee and a member of Cambodia's Parliament, was in Boulder, Colorado last week urging Americans to stop ignoring the corruption in Cambodia.. Sochua also drew particular attention to sex trafficking in Cambodia by giving an example of a three-year-old child being sold as a sex slave for fifty dollars.  Read more about Mu Sochua’s stay in Boulder. A member of the opposition party, Sochua also faces imprisonment when she returns to Cambodia.

Watch the CBS news clip on Mu Sochua .

Cool Group: Cambodian Women's Development Agency , a GFW grantee group since 2001, assists the victims of trafficking, and addresses the root causes of further trafficking.

Photo by S. Smith Patrick.  In the image, Mu Sochua is on the right.