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Fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg (right) poses with the 2009 global leadership award recipients Somaly Mam (centre) and Temituokpe Esisi of Nigeria after their news conference in Washington, DC, on Thursday. Somaly Mam, whose work with anti-trafficking NGO Afesip has earned her numerous accolades and awards, including the Glamour Woman of the Year award, was herself trafficked into sex work as a young girl.