an initiative to end sex-trafficking
every woman free, every child in school
Hard Facts
100 million adolescent girls (10-19yrs) go to bed hungry every day
Freedom from Hunger
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Our work
- 150 self-help groups of women survivors of trafficking in Bihar, Delhi, Maharashtra and West Bengal. These self-help groups are small social and economic cooperatives that run canteens, sell groceries, and manufacture craft...
- 797 children from red-light areas accessing education through community classrooms, girls’ hostels and high schools and leaning art, mime, karate...
- 1,909 police officers have been trained to investigate buyers and traffickers and protect victims...
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Our approach
- Apne Aap’s community mobilization approach is based on twin Gandhian principles of Ahisma and Antodaya
- Prostitution is a systemic form of violence against girls and women and can be dismantled by applying the twin Gandhian principles of Ahimsa (non-violence) and Antodaya (uplift of the last wo/man). In our case Ahimsa is resisting violence to the self and to the other and Antodaya’s last person is the prostituted girl-woman.
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Disscussion in Focus
- Kya yeh khel hai? (Is this is a game?)
- The Commonwealth Games 2010, New Delhi is causing a spurt in demand for prostituted sex.
Women in prostitution on GB road, the largest red light district in Delhi are being given one- hour sessions to learn English and are being taught words like “hello” “how are you?” and “please use a condom.” - Are you outraged? Visit us on facebook
Shirin EbadiNobel Laureate
... It is Ruchira’s tiny NGO that is making a difference in the world. I visited India on the invitation of her NGO, Apne Aap, which works with women and their children who live in red light districts. No government can limit or repress such small organisations...
News
- Singer Ricky Martin supports Apne Aap campaign to stop the sex industry from turning the CWG into a pimping opportunity. Sign our petition now
- An Appeal to the President of India “Don’t let the sex industry turn the CWG into a pimping opportunity”
- Vacancies at Apne Aap. Apply now
- “Sex is not work and our bodies are not for sale,” Ruchira at the 4th World Conference on Human Rights in Nantes, France. Click here for the full speech.
- Read Ruchira Gupta’s speech at a seminar on “A Human Rights Approach to Combating Human Trafficking” organized by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2010
- Asha Ki Kiran the girls group from Delhi Antodaya Center participates in an art workshop leading to an art exhibition at American Center-Gizella Varga Sinai a Hungarian-Iranian artist facilitated the workshop
- Asha Ki Kiran girls group and Jai Mata Self Help Group enjoy and learn at a music workshop by Sara Michieletto-a renowned Italian violinist in India on her project ‘The Strains of Violin in India’
- Asha Mahila Sansthan our Maharashtra group hold an open mike session with Eve Ensler of V-Day on right to safe housing
- Ambassador Verveer’s- Ambassador at Large for Global Women’s Issues- day out with the girls and women from the Delhi Antodaya Center
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