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Apne Aap Women Worldwide Partners with Move to End Violence

New Delhi, 14 November 2013: A group of 24 women’s rights activists from the US are visiting New Delhi and Kolkata from November 14- 21 in collaboration with anti-sex-trafficking organization, Apne Aap Women Worldwide to understand grassroots movement building from a Gandhian-Indian perspective and build solidarity for the global cause of ending violence against women.… [Continue Reading]

Fahmida Riaz, progressive writer and Pakistani women’s activist at the Apne Aap Terrace Talks session

New Delhi, 30th October, 2013: Apne Aap Women Worldwide, a registered charitable trust in India committed to work towards the empowerment of girls and women organized its session of ‘Terrace Talks’ at their head-office at India International Centre, New Delhi. The session was a conversation between Fahmida Riaz, a renowned Pakistani Urdu writer, poet and… [Continue Reading]

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Minister of Women’s Rights, France supports Apne Aap in combating ‘Human Trafficking’

New Delhi, 25th October, 2013:- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Minister of Women’s Rights, France who is on a short trip to India visited the Apne Aap centre in Najafgarh, to meet the women and girls, survivors of intergenerational prostitution, who are now being imparted skill development courses and other alternate livelihood training by Apne Aap to become… [Continue Reading]

Press Release

Juvenile Justice, Rape and Death Penalty: Apne Aap Organizes a Talk in the Wake of the Recent Judgment on Dec 16 Rape Case New Delhi, 24th September, 2013: Apne Aap Women Worldwide committed to work towards the empowerment of girls and women today organized its third session of ‘Terrace Talks’ at their head-office at India… [Continue Reading]

Victims blamed in India’s rape culture

Ruchira Gupta, CNN When I read about the rape of a 23-year-old photojournalist in Mumbai, I thought, here we go again. On December 6, 1992, when I was a 29-year-old reporter covering the demolition of a mosque in northern India, I was attacked. I wasn’t raped, but my attackers sexually assaulted and then tried to… [Continue Reading]