Mu Sochua had a request of her audience: "I ask you to please monitor [my] case, because it's very very likely that I will go to jail," the native Cambodian said in a speech in Sacramento. The social worker and women's rights and democracy activist was a Nobel Peace Prize nominee in 2005. About 40 people gathered Monday at noon in a conference room at the U.C. Center in Sacramento to hear Sochua speak. In the speech, presented by the World Affaris Council, she spoke about ending the sex traf... jmendick daveress 2009-09-21T00:40:02Z 2009-09-21T00:40:02Z

A job for the world, not for the US. Ms. Sochua is a brave and bright woman. Perhaps the UN should endorse her with some sort of diplomatic - political immunity tied to millions the US taxpayers provide in aid to the Cambodian government. But how does the UN works in cases like this?

daveress 2009-09-21T00:40:02Z sy92592 2009-09-19T03:52:26Z 2009-09-19T03:52:26Z

US needed to take out Hun Sen just like we did to Saddam Hussein. Or at least, teach him a lesson.

sy92592 2009-09-19T03:52:26Z Jonathan Mendick 2009-09-18T05:05:38Z 2009-09-18T05:05:38Z

Photographs credit Morry Hermon. Event sponsored by the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare (SSW): http://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/

Jonathan Mendick 2009-09-18T05:05:38Z