Ruchira Gupta is an Emmy winning journalist and founder of the anti sex-trafficking NGO Apne Aap, which empowers women and girls to exit systems of prostitution.
She has been awarded the French Ordre National du Mérite, the Clinton Global Citizen Award, and theUN NGO CSW Woman of Distinction, among other honors, for her contribution to the establishment of the UN Trafficking Fund for Survivors, the passage of the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act and her grassroots activism with Apne Aap.
Ruchira has also just published her debut fiction novel, I Kick and I Fly.
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