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Apne Aap Women Worldwide is a grassroots Indian organization that empowers marginalized girls and women to resist and end sex trafficking. We organize vulnerable girls and women into small self-empowerment groups, where they work collectively to access legal, social, economic and political rights.
Our organization was founded in 2002 by Ruchira Gupta along with 22 courageous women in prostitution who shared her vision of a world where no woman would be bought or sold. A charitable trust registered in India, Apne Aap Women Worldwide continues to strive to turn this vision into reality. Since 2002, Apne Aap has
The 2026 Last Girl Awards: Celebrating Those Who Fight Global Sex Trafficking
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Join Apne Aap and Asia Society for the 10th Annual Last Girl Awards on October 2, 2026, in New York City.
A benefit evening celebrating honorees Liz Stein, Reem Alsalem, Janet Jenson, Lauren Hersch, Rachel Foster, Rebecca Zipkin, and more, for their work to fight global sex-trafficking.
As the Epstein case continues to show how survivors and allies can bring down even the most powerful, the evening will support food, hygiene, education, safe spaces, and freedom for women and children in India’s red-light areas.
See past Last Girl Awards here.
Funds raised will provide food, hygiene items, and education to women and children in the red-light areas of India.
$ 100 = 100 meals + hygiene items or 1 month of school for a girl
For enquiries: [email protected]
What would you do today, if you had to fight for your life tomorrow?
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Fourteen-year-old Heera knows she is living on borrowed time when she is expelled from school. There is no food at home and her father wants to sell her into the sex trade. She has no means to fight back until a woman’s rights advocate enrolls her in her Kung Fu class. Through it, Heera learns that her body isn’t an object to be preyed upon, but a vessel to free herself.
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Simran “Simi” Singh’s life in Punjab is filled with love and hockey games until religious intolerance forces her family to flee to America.
Separated from her mother at the border, Simi faces hardship and detention but holds onto hope through extraordinary acts of kindness as she crosses the Arizona desert.
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