| Charimaya Tamang | |
| Nationality: | Nepalese |
| Awards: | 2011 Hero Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery Award by US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton |
Charimaya ("Anu") Tamang is a recipient of the Hero Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery Award 2011,[1] [2] [3] founder of Shakti Samuha which has been awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award 2013. She was born into a poor family and sold to India when she was 16 years to work in a brothel as a sex worker. She spent 22 months in a brothel before the Indian government rescued her along with over 200 other Nepali women in 1996. Upon her return to Nepal, Tamang was ostracised by her community.[4]
Later in 2000, Tamang and 15 other survivors established Shakti Samuha, an anti-trafficking NGO.
Charimaya ("Anu") Tamang's story appeared for the first time in 1999 in the Spanish monthly magazine Planeta Humano, "Girl Child-trafficking. When No Means Never Again".[6]
In 2003, her story was further developed in the documentary film Tin Girls (Niñas de Hojalata), directed by Miguel Bardem, produced by Canal+ Spain and sold to public broadcaster RTVE.
In 2016, the documentary film, directed by Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, featured Anu Tamang reacting to her Hero Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery Award, presented to her by Hillary Clinton in Washington D.C. in 2011, and following her current work as an anti-trafficking activist.