Mira Sorvino
Actor; Humanitarian; United Nations Goodwill Ambassador and UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons Trustee
Academy Award-winning actor Mira Sorvino is the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Goodwill Ambassador in the Global Fight Against Human Trafficking and a member of the Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons. She received the United Nations Correspondents Association Global Advocate of the Year Award in 2010. She has testified before Congress and at the National Conference of State Legislators, the National Association of Attorneys General, the American Bar Association, and the Mashable Social Good Summit to reform laws on human trafficking. Ms. Sorvino has also spoken at the Vatican and in Europe, Mexico, and Thailand as part of the UN Blue Heart Action and Awareness Campaign, and made Every Day in Cambodia, a documentary film about child sex trafficking, with the CNN Freedom Project.
“The #MeToo movement must include sexual trafficking, sexual exploitation, and prostitution as core violations because they are the nth degree of abuse, violence, and rape. Prostitution is not a victimless crime or an equivalent exchange; demand creates a giant market which traffickers fill with their human products.”