January 28, 2015 – New York, NY – The
NGO Committee on the Status of Women, NY (NGO CSW/NY), one of three
women’s committees of CoNGO that advocates for women’s rights and gender
equality, is pleased to announce the 2015 NGO CSW Forum Woman of
Distinction awardee, Ruchira Gupta from India, founder of Apne Aap Women
Worldwide.
After
winning an Emmy for her documentary on sex trafficking, The Selling of
Innocents, Gupta started Apne Aap Women Worldwide, an anti-sex
trafficking organization in India that empowers more than 20,000
low-caste girls and women and their family members affected by
prostitution. She received the Clinton Global Citizen award for giving a
voice to the voiceless and for tenaciously standing by the last girl in
brothels in Bihar and India.
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