EP. 19 Ruchira Gupta: "Where are all the girls?"

About this episode

Stephen Barden interviews Ruchira Gupta about her activism against human trafficking and her efforts to protect and educate trafficked women.

Stephen Barden talks to Ruchira Gupta, lifelong activist against human trafficking - especially the trafficking of women. This extraordinary woman not only founded a global organization to protect and educate sexually trafficked women and their daughters but, through her work with the United Nations, has driven changes in global laws on human trafficking and drawn up rules of behaviour for the peacekeepers themselves. In this episode we hear how she started on her campaign decades...

People in this episode

Host: Stephen Barden

Guest: Ruchira Gupta

Topics covered

• human trafficking
• activism
• women's rights
• global laws
• education
• peacekeepers

Keywords

• human trafficking
• Ruchira Gupta
• activism
• women's rights
• United Nations
• education
• peacekeepers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: United Nations

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