Ruchira Gupta

Indian anti-trafficking advocate leading global policy reforms

Ruchira Gupta is the founder of Apne Aap Women Worldwide, an organization that has rescued over 150,000 girls from sex trafficking since its 2007 inception. Her 2020 UN report "The Invisible Chains" exposed how digital platforms facilitate modern slavery, leading to new EU and US legislation. In 2022, she pioneered India's first survivor-led trafficking prevention program in West Bengal's red-light districts.

Gupta's 2024 collaboration with Google created Safe Web Alliance, an AI tool detecting trafficking networks through dark web monitoring. Her testimony before the US Congress in 2023 helped pass the End Child Sex Trafficking Act, requiring tech companies to implement reporting systems. The documentary 《Voice of the Unheard》 (2025) chronicles her decade-long advocacy.

In 2025, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize nomination for her work linking trafficking to climate migration. Her book 《Breaking the Chains》 (2021) details strategies for survivor empowerment and has been adopted as UN training material. Gupta's TEDx talk "The New Face of Human Trafficking" remains a critical policy reference.