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AnnaLynne McCord, Shenae Grimes, Serinda Swan, Jessica Stroup, Renee Olstead, Briana Evigan, Claudia Lee, Samantha Mumba, Ryan Eggold, Matt Lanter, Cassie Scerbo, Laura Linda Bradley, Amber Dixon-Brenner, Niki Sabet, Vik Sahay, Kathryn Newton, Alicia Josipovic, Rachel McCord, Angel McCord, Pia Toscano, Tara Hunnewell, Viva Bianca, Somaly Mam, Antoinette Kalaj, Charlotte Kirkat Life is Love: A red carpet cocktail event hosted by AnnaLynne McCord benefiting the Somaly Mam Foundation at a private residence in Los Angeles, Ca USA September 22, 2012

Sex trafficking is the movement by force or coercion of men, women and children into the commercial sex trade. Here, they can be subject to rape, forced abortions, torture, starvation and threats to family members, and forced to cater to up to 30 clients in a day - with contraception optional. Through a combination of psychological, the victims are bound by their captors: they are modern-day slaves. Experts estimate that as many as two million women and children are sold each year, and that profits from sex slavery exceed $9.5 billion annually. This is not just a problem of the developing world: it is a global crisis, including the United States. Somaly Mam is a Cambodian survivor of sex slavery. She was sold at the age of 12. She doesn't know her age, nor her real name, and she spent nearly a decade in the horrors of Cambodian brothels. But she escaped, and since has aided in the rescue of thousands of women and children. She founded an NGO that rescues, recovers and empowers victims and has become an advocate and global leader in the cause. The Somaly Mam Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to ending sex slavery and empowering its survivors, based on the vision and life aof activist & survivor Somaly Mam. http://www.somaly.org