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Rachel Lloyd (born 1975) is a British anti trafficking advocate, author and the founder of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services. She is known for her work on the issue of commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking and has been a leader in helping shift the perception of trafficked girls from criminals to victims and now to survivors and leaders. She immigrated to the US in 1997 and began working to end domestic sex trafficking, primarily focusing on addressing the commercial sexual exploitation of children and young women. In 1998, she established the Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, which is based in Harlem, New York. In March 1998, Lloyd attended the first ''International Summit of Sexually Exploited Youth'', presented by the International Centre to Combat Exploitation of Children, held in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. During the summit, she assisted in drafting a declaration and call to action by governments throughout the world. On October 22, 2009, she presented the declaration at the United Nations, following which, it was ratified by 120 countries. In 2004, Lloyd was named one of the "100 Women Who Shape New York" by the ''New York Daily News''. On September 4, 2006, she was recognized as a "Notable New Yorker" by WCBS-TV.〔 Later that same year, she was also honored with the Reebok International Human Rights Award. In 2008, she was the recipient of the Social Entrepreneurship Award from the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, while two years later, she was named to an Ashoka Fellowship and a Prime Mover Fellowship. On May 12, 2010, she was named "New Yorker of the Week" by NY1.〔 == Early life == Rachel Lloyd was born in 1975, in Stalbridge, Dorset, England, where she was raised by her mother and stepfather. During her childhood, Lloyd's mother drank heavily, while her stepfather was abusive.〔 She attended private school on a scholarship to Portsmouth High School for Girls.〔 While attending Portsmouth, she was on the receiving end of racial prejudice and taunting, expressed by both the school administration and members of her peer group.〔 In response to the treatment she received at school and home, Lloyd left school at the age of 13. To support herself, she initially relied on shoplifting and nude modeling. By the time she was 18, she had progressed to stripping and prostitution.〔〔〔Richards, Sarah E. (December 1, 2003) "Woman Warrior", ''Marie Claire''.〕 When she was recruited by a pimp, she began regularly working as a prostitute on the streets.〔 After working for two years as a prostitute, she left the sex industry. In an interview published in ''Marie Claire'' magazine, Lloyd stated, "I was 17 when I turned my first trick, compared with the 12-year-olds I meet today."〔 Abused at three and raped at 13, Lloyd became a prostitute, surviving rape on the streets, murder plots by her pimp, and several suicide attempts.〔〔 When she was 17 years old, she moved to Germany, in an effort to change her life, only to end up back on the streets. She was violently beaten by her pimp before her 18th birthday. Her body still bears the scars of traumatic encounters with her pimps and boyfriends, including a deep scar from a knife wound on her right hand, which required 17 stitches.〔 In 1994, Lloyd started on the road to recovery with the help of a military family and a church on a US Air Force base in Germany.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rachel Lloyd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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