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A Constant Battle Against the Sale of Bodies in Bihar

New York Times The women’s rights activists Ruchira Gupta and Gloria Steinem are keeping a diary of their travels throughout India as they meet the country’s young feminists, writers and thought leaders (previous posts are here and here). In this installation for India Ink, Ms. Gupta and Ms. Steinem visit Patna, Bihar state’s capital, and… [Continue Reading]

In Jaipur, New Feminists Are Born

New York Times The women’s rights activists Ruchira Gupta and Gloria Steinem are keeping a diary of their travels throughout India as they meet the country’s young feminists, writers and thought leaders. In this installation for India Ink, Ms. Gupta and Ms. Steinem take part in the Jaipur Literature Festival. Jan. 17, Friday: Gloria and… [Continue Reading]

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem launches her new book

Business Standard Feminist icon Gloria Steinem today released a compilation of her insightful and thought-provoking writings here for the first time in India. The book “The Essential Gloria Steinem Reader: As if Women Matter”, contains an introduction by Ruchira Gupta, Founder President of Apne Aap Women Worldwide, an anti-sex trafficking NGO. Published by Rupa Publications… [Continue Reading]

As if Women Matter: The Essential Gloria Steinem Reader

Edited by Ruchira Gupta Published by Roopa ( English) Rajkamal ( Hindi) Her early years in India taught her the Gandhian lesson that change, like a tree, must grow from the bottom up. Her decades of work with the feminist movement in her own and other countries taught her that violence and domination are normalized… [Continue Reading]

Superintendent of Police, Araria, Bihar (India): Drop all False Charges against Anti-Trafficking Activist Mhd Kalam

I Mohammad Kalam from the Nat Community, working with Apne Aap Women Worldwide for the past ten years to end sex-trafficking and prostitution and have been facing false trafficking charges since June 2012. I come from the Nat community, a De-Notified Tribe in India where women and girls are forced into inter-generational prostitution in their home-based brothels. They are stigmatized by mainstream society for… [Continue Reading]