WHITFIELD: All right. CNN has been shining a spotlight on modern day slavery this week. Oscar winning actress Mira Sorvino is also a U.N. Goodwill ambassador fighting human trafficking. She talks about her work now in "Impact your World."</s>MIRA SORVINA, ACTRESS, U.N. AMBASSADOR: A lot of what I've learned about human trafficking has been through direct conversations with victim. I've interviewed many, many victims in several different countries in different situations, different age ranges. Almost all the victims I've spoken to have been women. Most of them have been in sexual exploitation. Some of it is so shocking that it almost, like, ruins you for a few weeks. Like, you can't actually escape the horrendousness of what people are telling you and the pain that they have lived through. I met a little girl at a shelter and she was showing me her homework. It was her addiction and subtraction. She was very proud. Then they took me aside and said her father murdered her mother in front of her and then she dropped her off with some relatives in Cancun and they sold her to a brothel at age 4. 4 to 7 she was working in a brothel doing things that she did not even know how to describe except that she knew they were incorrecto. Incorrect. Wrong. Then somehow she was liberated and ended up in this shelter. To think that there is a sex tourism demand for children of the age of 4 is one of the most stomach turning things that I could possibly imagine as a mother. If all of us rise up and all of us fight this, it will end. This is going to change. Because it is morally intolerable.</s>WHITFIELD: There are many ways to impact your world. Just go to CNN.com/impact and see the various organizations that will accept your donations.
Shining a Spotlight on Modern Day Slavery