“Some girls come to us beaten half to death. They are so young. They have marks worse than anything I've ever endured. (Mam 166). Around the world, traffickers coerce and kidnap women and children into the sex trade. Traffickers then trade and sell these women for sexual exploitation (Mace Venneberg and Amell 336). At any given time, up to 20 million people are involved in the sex trade globally (Nawyn, Birdal, and Glogower 56). Although sex trafficking is recognized as a problem around the world, it continues to become even more extreme. Anyone, from anywhere, could be taken and sold into slavery. In countries like Cambodia and Thailand, girls may be as young as five or six years old when they enter the sex industry (Chung 484; Mam 62). Statistics show that 80 percent of sex slaves are women and 50 percent are children (Mace, Venneberg, and Amell 338). “At least one in 40 girls born in Cambodia can be expected to be sold into sex slavery” (Mam 1). This figure is alarming and continues to increase. There are several human rights activist groups and global organizations trying to stop trafficking; however, more efforts can always be made to help women and children around the world. Global organizations should do more to help women and children working in the sex industry; no one should have to endure rape, torture or humiliating servitude. Somaly Mam had a horrible start to life from a very young age. Mom knows what it's like to be a slave and she writes about it in her novel. The novel The Road to Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine, written by Somaly Mam, tells the extraordinary story of a woman who had everything taken away from her in the middle of paper. ...., and James W. Amell. “Human trafficking: integrating human resource development towards a solution.” Advances in Human Resource Development 14.3 (2012): 333-344. Commercial source completed. Internet. April 21, 2014. .Mah, Megan. “Trafficking of Ethnic Minorities in Thailand: Forced Prostitution and the Perpetuation of Marginality.” Undercurrent 8.2 (2011): 65-72. Academic research completed. Internet. May 5, 2014. < http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.gatekeeper2.lindenwood.edu /ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=18&sid=4b45ef9c-7e80-4adf-9ed2-5e3b6297a41c% 40sessionmgr4003&hid=4205>.Mam, Somalia. The Road to Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine. Éditions Spiegel & Grau, 2008. Print.