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Hard Facts

36.8% of girls in India are married before reaching the age of 18 yrs

National Commission on Population, Government of India

  • Our work

    • 67 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, manufacture craft...
    • 854 children from red-light areas accessing education through community classrooms, girls's hostels and high schools and leaning art, mime, karate...
    • 1,909 police officers have been trained to investigate buyers and traffickers and protect victims...
  • Our approach

    We work to end sex trafficking altogether and not just to mitigate its circumstances . We do this by enabling women and girls to form small self-help groups that help that rescue themselves and transform their communities. We do not accept that slavery and prostitution are inevitable.

     

  • Disscussion in Focus

  • 10 Reasons not to Legalize Prostitution
  • Prostitution should not be legalized simply because it happens to the "Poor"
    Click here to read.

 

Shirin Ebadi

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

  • Read Ruchira Gupta's response to legalization of prostitution in Outlook magazine -'To Let/For Sale?'
  • Oprah's call to action: Don't miss Apne Aap on the Oprah New Registry Online at www.Oprah.com/forallwome
  • Wu Dunn and Kristoff: Read about Apne Aap members Meena Hasina and Naina in Half the Sky...

 

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