Human trafficking survivor Somaly Mam joins a powerful group of women leaders, including Hillary Clinton, Meryl Streep, Jacqueline Novogratz, Queen Rania of Jordan, Diane Sawyer, and Katie Couric, for the Daily Beast’s Women in the World: Stories and Solutions Conference, March 12-14, 2010. This three-day conference, co-hosted by the UN Foundation, Vital Voices Global Partnership, and Diane von Furstenberg, convenes women from around the world to share their stories of tragedy and triumph and work together to create concrete solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing women in the twenty-first century.

To open the conference, Meryl Streep will headline a reading of the documentary play SEVEN , which tells the stories of seven activist women from around the world. The next two days will see panels, interviews, and performances on subjects ranging from adolescent girls’ education, to child and arranged marriages, to domestic violence and sexual slavery.

Somaly Mam will take part in a panel titled “Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery,” along with Luis CdeBaca, US Ambassador-at-Large, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons; Dao Tuyet Lien, businesswoman and victim of human trafficking; Sunitha Krishnan, Chief Functionary, Prajwala; and Sohini Chakraborty, dance activist and founder of Kolkata Sonved.