Ruchira gupta biography of barack

Ruchira Gupta

Ruchira Gupta is a writer, feminist campaigner, professor at New York University and founder of the anti-sex-trafficking organization, Apne Aap Women Worldwide.

Ruchira gupta biography of barack I Kick and I Fly Scholastic, April 18 is an intense, dramatic story showing the desperation of families living in poverty in a gang-controlled red-light district in Forbesganj, Bihar, India. It skillfully shows the overwhelming scale of systemic problems and the importance of individual initiative without veering into hopelessness or blaming those who cannot break the cycle. With I Kick and I Fly , she channels years of experience and passion for reform into a gripping and empowering novel. Fourteen-year-old protagonist Heera, from the formerly nomadic Nat caste that was criminalized by British colonizers, is supported by a network of women and girls. She pursues an education, learns martial arts, escapes being sold into sex slavery—something that she learns affects girls worldwide—and helps others.

She won the Clinton Global Citizen award in , the Sera Bangali Award in and an Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism in She has helped more than twenty thousand girls and women in India exit prostitution systems. She has also edited As If Women Matter, an anthology of Gloria Steinem's essays, and written manuals on human trafficking for the UN Office for Drugs and Crime.

Ruchira divides her time between Delhi and New York. I Kick and I Fly is her debut novel.

This biography was last updated on 04/18/

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Ruchira gupta biography of barack obama Ruchira Gupta is a journalist and activist. During her journalism career, she extensively covered women's rights, armed struggles in the north-east of India, caste conflict, and minority issues. She supported some of these countries to develop National Action Plans and laws against human trafficking. Through her work at Apne Aap, Gupta has given voice to the voiceless by organizing victims and survivors from denotified tribes labeled criminal tribes by the British , who are trapped in inter-generational prostitution, into Self-empowerment groups. Gupta's leadership in organizing women to campaign for legal change resulted in trafficking being made a penal offense for the first time in Indian history, through the Criminal Law Amendment Act.

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