Apne Aap

Founded in 2002, Apne Aap is a non-governmental organisation based in Mumbai, India working on human rights, gender equality, community development.

Apne Aap is a grassroots Indian organisation that works to end sex trafficking and empower marginalized girls and women. It organises women in prostitution and at risk of trafficking into self-empowerment groups that work collectively to access legal, social, economic and political rights, and runs community centres offering education, livelihood options and legal rights training. It also campaigns for policy change, including decriminalisation of people in prostitution and punishment for traffickers and buyers of sex. Founded in 2002 in Mumbai by Ruchira Gupta and co-founders from a red-light district, it operates in Bihar, Delhi and West Bengal, with a New York office that raises funds for its work in India.