TED TALKS: Sunitha Krishnan fights sex slavery

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TED TALKS: Sunitha Krishnan fights sex slavery

About this talk

Sunitha Krishnan has dedicated her life to rescuing women and children from sex

slavery, a multimilion-dollar global market. In this courageous talk, she tells

three powerful stories, as well as her own, and calls for a more humane approach

to helping these young victims rebuild their lives

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Why you should listen to her:

Each year, some two million women and children, many younger than 10 years old,

are bought and sold around the globe. Impassioned by the silence surrounding the

sex-trafficking epidemic, Sunitha Krishnan co-founded Prajwala, or " eternal

flame, " a group in Hyderabad that rescues women from brothels and educates their

children to prevent second-generation prostitution. Prajwala runs 17 schools

throughout Hyderabad for 5,000 children and has rescued more than 2,500 women

from prostitution, 1,500 of whom Krishnan personally liberated. At its Asha

Niketan center, Prajwala helps young victims prepare for a self-sufficient

future.

Krishnan has sparked India's anti-trafficking movement by coordinating

government, corporations and NGOs. She forged NGO-corporate partnerships with

companies like Amul India, Taj Group of Hotels and Heritage Hospitals to find

jobs for rehabilitated women.

In collaboration with UN agencies and other NGOs, she established printing and

furniture shops that have rehabilitated some 300 survivors. Krishnan works

closely with the government to define anti-trafficking policy, and her

recommendations for rehabilitating sex victims have been passed into state

legislation.

" The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being

sexually violated and that there's this huge silence about it around me angers

me. "

Sunitha Krishnan

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