For many years, Yasmina Baddou, Moroccan secretary of state for families, children and the handicapped, has worked to free children from forced labor. She has championed the empowerment of women and protection of children in her country.

Wayhu Susilo is the founder of the Indonesian nongovernmental organization Migrant CARE, which documents the challenges facing Indonesian migrant workers and fights trafficking by campaigning for stronger regulation of employment agencies.

In Susana Trimarco de Veron's passionate search to find her 23-year-old daughter, who was kidnapped in Argentina in April 2002, she has found and saved more than 100 girls from the bondage of human traffickers -- but not her beloved Marita.

The extraordinary efforts of Deputy Police Superintendent Patience Quaye effectively enforced a new law in Ghana to combat human trafficking. Her work returned a 9-year-old child, abducted and sold to strangers in Nigeria, to his mother.

Threats from defendants and defense attorneys have not kept special prosecutor Lucy Blacio from successfully enforcing Ecuador’s new law against trafficking in persons. She has initiated investigations and prosecutions of many human trafficking cases.

Esohe Aghatise, a lawyer, founded Association IROKO, a nongovernmental organization that assists women who have fallen victim to sex trafficking in Turin, Italy. Many of the women are from Nigeria, her native country.

Kailash Satyarthi has freed more than 75,000 bonded workers and child laborers since 1980. He and a handful of dedicated people raided work sites to rescue children from bondage and built rehabilitation centers to give former child laborers a chance at new lives.

Lydia Cacho Ribeiro’s crusade in Cancun, Mexico, to fight trafficking of women was motivated by the city's dark side – its international sex trade. A journalist, author and public advocate, Cacho works tirelessly for victims of sexual predators.