Cecilia is a globally recognized human rights advocate and a multiawarded freedom fighter. She is also regarded as an international expert on human trafficking, child labor and domestic work. She is currently the women’s sector NGO representative at the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking and a member of the Presidential Taskforce Against Illegal Recruitment. Cecilia was named by the U.S. Department of State as one of its heroes acting to end modern-day slavery in its 2008 Trafficking in Persons report and was presented the first Iqbal Masih award for the elimination of child labor by the U.S. Department of Labor.