You may have seen the haunting black silhouette drawings of missing girls on the walls of your cities. These are part of Leena Kejriwal’s works. Kejriwal — through her art project M.I.S.S.I.N.G — strives to raise awareness about sex trafficking and the state of girls who go missing after being sold into sex work. An artist […]

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has instructed the Secretary of the capitals Department of Women & Child Development to provide Rehabilitation policy for sex workers living in Delhi’s GB Road. The state government sent the report with inputs from DCW about the state’s initiatives to tackle this issue. Based on the report, the NHRC directed […]

Anuradha Koirala has won the Padma Shri award for rescuing over 12,000 girls from trafficking.She has also prevented over 45,000 women from being trafficked across the India-Nepal border. Koirala was born in West Bengal, but spent most of her life in Nepal. She worked as a teacher in Kathmandu. In 1993, she set up Maiti […]

The life and times of Padma Shri recipient Sunitha Krishnan, her social work, her struggle to improve lives of the sexually exploited and her passion for her work.