Description
About The Book :
The eviction of women from a red-light district was the spark that lit Prajwala—literally, the eternal flame—in 1996. In the years since, the organisation has rescued 28,600 victims of sex slavery, rehabilitated 26,900 survivors, prevented 18,000 children from entering the sex trade, worked to create awareness on the harms of sex trafficking and sex buying, and litigated both to convict traffickers and to demand victim-centric policies from the state. Working with governments, the administration and police, Prajwala has helped thousands of women and children build new lives in the aftermath of sustained abuse.
- Publisher : Westland
- Hardcover : 294 pages
- ISBN-13 : 9789360452988
- Reading age : 18 years and up
- Item Weight : 304 g
- Dimensions : 21.6 x 2.3 x 14 cm
About The Author :
Activist, author and film producer, Sunitha Krishnan is the founder of Prajwala—Asia’s largest institution combating sex trafficking and sex crime. A recipient of the Padma Shri, Krishnan has been recognised as a Trafficking in Person Hero by the US government and was one of Newsweek’s 150 ‘Fearless Women in the World’. The therapeutic community of safe shelter homes established by her are considered an international best-practice model, and have ensure the dignity and lives of thousands of adult and child sex-trafficking survivors. Krishnan has also played an instrumental role in drafting several victim-centric policies, including the first ever anti-trafficking policy in India, a policy for minimum standards of care, a sex offenders registry and the introduction of video conferencing to record evidence of a trafficked victim. She has also worked to create several comprehensive training manuals and handbooks for law enforcers, the judiciary and other duty bearers of India’s anti-trafficking ecosystem.
