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Ruchira Gupta, (born January 7, 1964), is an Indian sex trafficking abolitionist, journalist and activist. She has worked for over 25 years to end sex trafficking and has been honored for her work by nations, governmental leaders, and organizations on a global scale.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.un.org/ga/president/62/ThematicDebates/humantrafficking/gupta.pdf )〕 In 2002, she established Apne Aap Women Worldwide, a nongovernmental organization known as Apne Aap, which addresses women's rights and the eradication of human sex trafficking. Apne Aap has organized over 15,000 women and girls trapped in or at risk of prostitution in India. , she continues to serve as the organization's president. She works to expose the connection between trafficking and prostitution〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://passblue.com/2012/08/16/cool-men-dont-buy-sex/ )〕 as well as to demand a societal shift which acknowledges that male demand for prostitution is what continues, furthers and perpetuates trafficking.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.unodc.org/pdf/india/training_manual_prosecutors1.pdf )〕 == Journalism and UN Career == Gupta began her career as a journalist, working for The Telegraph Newspaper (Kolkata, India), The Sunday Observer (Kolkata, India), Business India Magazine (Delhi, India), and British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) South Asia (Delhi, India). During her journalism career she extensively covered women's rights, armed struggles in the north-east of India, caste conflict, and minority issues. She won an Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism in 1996 for field producing a documentary, The Selling of Innocents, on sex-trafficking from the villages of Nepal to the brothels of India. She continues to write extensively on sex trafficking and women's rights issues for Open Democracy, Pass Blue, CNN, Times of India, The Hindu, The Guardian, among others. She then moved on to the United Nations, where she worked with the governments of Iran, Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia, Kosovo, and the Philippines. She supported some of these countries to develop National Action Plans and laws against human trafficking.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.trustwomenconf.com/profile/ruchira-gupta/ )〕 She has written two manuals on combating trafficking for law enforcement and prosecutors, supported by UNODC and UNIFEM. Gupta also served as a UNICEF contact in October 2000 for the first-ever gathering of Messengers of Peace and Goodwill Ambassadors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2000/20001018.note5634.doc.html )〕 Her publications on trafficking include: a) Trafficking Responses in Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia: Needs, Capacity assessment and Recommendations b) Trafficking in the Asia and Near East region: Problem analysis and Proposed framework for response; Kosovo plan of action to counter trafficking in persons; c) Manual for law-enforcement officers to confront Demand for Human trafficking.; d) Manual for prosecutors to confront human trafficking. Confronting the Demand to End human trafficking: A manual for law-enforcement officers (2002), supported by UNIFEM,〔()〕 was the first manual in the world to teach police officers how to tackle human trafficking by investigating and prosecuting traffickers and clients instead of victims. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruchira Gupta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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