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3 Contemporary Inspirational Women You Should Have Already Known About

#1). Chong Kim  Chong Kim is an American born Korean who was kidnapped and forced into human trafficking from 1995 to 1997.  Kim was 18 at the time but her captors were under the impression that she was 13.  She worked her way up to "madame" status in order to escape.  Which Kim did manage to do and now is a very outspoken activist against the dark underbelly of American human trafficking and the role America plays in the global sex slavery trade.  These are little girls giving birth to babies that in turn, also become sex slaves for the same evil system that helped spawn them.  Free cattle, if you will. It's absolutely horrifying. I learned about Chong Kim after seeing an ad on Alternet.org for the movie Eden that was made about Kim's truly victorious tale of overcoming dangerous odds and not just escaping (where the movie ends) but to see in reality a woman that has overcome obstacles, transcending victimhood, and even the status the word survi...