29 Apr 2013
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What would you do if you only had $1.50 to live on today? That’s the reality of the 1.4 billion people living in extreme poverty right now. This week, thousands of people around the world are going to Live Below the Line to raise awareness about their plight.

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23 Apr 2013
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Dianna Agron’s birthday is one week away, and the "Glee" star's birthday has been turned into an opportunity to raise money for the Somaly Mam Foundation in effort to fight human trafficking.

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18 Feb 2013
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Not everyone may be happy with what’s going on with Naomi Clark on “90210,” but everyone has to love AnnaLynne McCord, the actress who plays her.

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21 Dec 2012
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Shay Mitchell helps empower LGBT youth with her character Emily on “Pretty Little Liars,” and she’s also dedicated to stopping human trafficking with the Somaly Mam Foundation. Somaly Mam, the founder of SMF, was sold into slavery as a young girl in Cambodia, and Shay helps her mission to stop slavery in Cambodia and elsewhere.

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28 Sep 2012
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Somebody needs to give “90210" star AnnaLynne McCord an award for being amazing. Last weekend she hosted Life Is Love, an event to help the Somaly Mam Foundation, and while she was there she talked about her own experience with assault.

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20 Aug 2012
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Would you skydive for a cause? Well, Shay Mitchell and AnnaLynne McCord did exactly that this weekend with Serinda Swan to help raise awareness on sex trafficking for the Somaly Mam Foundation!

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9 Aug 2012
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Ashley Benson and Shay Mitchell aren’t just co-stars on “Pretty Little Liars” -- they’re also companions in doing some good for the world! Shay is a mega supporter of the Somaly Mam Foundation, which fights human trafficking, and Ashley used Twitter to help out her friend’s mission.

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18 Jul 2012

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"Awkward's" Jenna Hamilton Ashley Rickards is one hell of a do-gooder! When it comes to the topic of sex trafficking she is a fighter and using her voice for those who are voiceless. This week and this week only, Ashley teamed up with Sevenly to model and promote shirts that benefit the Somaly Mam Foundation!

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27 Apr 2012
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Between 12 to 27 million people are enslaved all over the world RIGHT NOW. That doesn’t even seem possible, right? And what’s even crazier is most peeps have no idea that slavery still exists.

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4 Nov 2011
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By Cory Midgarden

AnnaLynne McCord’s character, Naomi Clark on 90210 is definitely the leader of the mean girl pack. And as convincing as she is in that role, it could be safe to assume the real life McCord is just as nasty, right? Errr, wrong! “I love her so very much but she is not like me at all,” explained 24-year old McCord about her “darling, evil” TV character.

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