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'''Priti Patkar''' is an ]n social worker and human rights activist. She is the co-founder and director of the organisation ] that has done pioneering work in the red-light districts of Mumbai, India to protect children vulnerable to ] and ]. '''Priti Patkar''' is an Indian social worker and human rights activist. She holds the position of co-founder and director at Prerana, an organization that has been a trailblazer in addressing issues within the red-light districts of Mumbai, India. Priti Patkar's efforts primarily focus on safeguarding children who are at risk of falling victim to ] and ].


==Personal life== ==Personal life==


Priti Patkar was born in ]. Her father was a government servant and her mother ran a daycare program.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://philanthropyforum.org/members/priti-patkar/|title=Priti Patkar Profile}}</ref> She is a Gold Medalist from The Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai where she completed a Masters in Social Work.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infolona.com/news/unsung_heroes/find/|title=Unsung heroes}}</ref> She is married to social activist ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gitamritam.com/2012/patkar/|title=Priti & Pravin Patkar}}</ref> Priti Patkar was born in ]. Her father was a government servant and her mother ran a daycare program.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://philanthropyforum.org/members/priti-patkar/|title=Priti Patkar Profile|access-date=9 May 2014|archive-date=12 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512220203/http://philanthropyforum.org/members/priti-patkar/|url-status=live}}</ref> She is a Gold Medalist from The Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai where she completed a Masters in Social Work.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infolona.com/news/unsung_heroes/find/|title=Unsung heroes|access-date=9 May 2014|archive-date=13 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513060515/http://www.infolona.com/news/unsung_heroes/find|url-status=live}}</ref> She is married to social activist ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gitamritam.com/2012/patkar/|title=Priti & Pravin Patkar|access-date=9 May 2014|archive-date=12 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512221747/http://www.gitamritam.com/2012/patkar/|url-status=live}}</ref>


==Activism== ==Activism==


Priti Patkar has been working for the protection and rescue of children and women victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation for over 30 years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theweekendleader.com/Heroism/2058/saving-children.html|title=Saving children|website=www.theweekendleader.com|language=en|access-date=2018-02-19|archive-date=15 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215204016/http://www.theweekendleader.com/Heroism/2058/saving-children.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She founded Prerana in 1986, after a research visit for her Masters in Social Work to the Kamathipura Red Light Area – where she witnessed three generations of women soliciting customers on the same street.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/26/how-priti-patkar-and-prerana-changed-the-lives-of-children-of-sex-workers|title=How Prerana's Priti Patkar has changed the lives of sex workers' children|last=Mumbai|first=Arunima Rajan in|date=2014-11-26|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-02-19|archive-date=20 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220033107/https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/26/how-priti-patkar-and-prerana-changed-the-lives-of-children-of-sex-workers|url-status=live}}</ref>
⚫ Priti Patkar has been working for the protection and rescue of children and women victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation for the past 28 years. She founded ] in 1986. She is accredited with several path-breaking social interventions for the protection and dignity of children and women victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Women-of-substance/articleshow/16109415.cms|title=Woman of substance}}</ref>


⚫ She is accredited with several path-breaking social interventions for the protection and dignity of children and women victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Women-of-substance/articleshow/16109415.cms|title=Woman of substance|access-date=9 May 2014|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303215347/http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Women-of-substance/articleshow/16109415.cms|url-status=live}}</ref>
Some of her pioneering interventions include:-
* World’s first Night Care Shelter in the midst of a red light area
* first Institutional Placement Programme,
* first comprehensive Education Support Programme for children living in red light areas
* first Network of Anti Trafficking Organizations,
* first comprehensive programme for AIDS Affected Children.


⚫ Patkar has to her credit the largest number of legal interventions and writ petitions in India to protect the rights and dignity of child and female victims of child sexual exploitation and trafficking.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://powai.info/2011/03/22/priti-patkar-of-powai-chief-of-ngo-prerana-is-a-woman-of-might/|title=Woman of Might|access-date=9 May 2014|archive-date=3 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503153855/http://powai.info/2011/03/22/priti-patkar-of-powai-chief-of-ngo-prerana-is-a-woman-of-might/|url-status=usurped}}</ref>
Her intervention under Children Affected by AIDS programme was adjudged and documented by Washington University as one of World’s 7 best interventions of working with AIDS affected persons.

Priti's organisation runs three centres in the heart of Mumbai's red light areas in ], ] and ].

⚫ She has to her credit the largest number of legal interventions and Writ Petitions in the country to protect the rights and dignity of the children and women victims of Child Sex Exploitation and trafficking.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://powai.info/2011/03/22/priti-patkar-of-powai-chief-of-ngo-prerana-is-a-woman-of-might/|title=Woman of Might}}</ref>

==Positions held==

# Ashoka fellow of the Ashoka Foundation USA, for 1988–92.
# Consultant, Project funding and project development policies. VOLKART FOUNDATION, India
# Member of the First National Level committee for "Prevention and Control of AIDS" appointed by the Govt. of India
# Member, Special Committee for Review of Legislation on Women, appointed by the Department of Women & Child Welfare, Govt. of India
# Member UNICEF Team to Sensitize and Train members of Judiciary (Judges) on CSE&T at JOTI Nagpur since 2001 up to date
# Visiting Resource Person, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, for the Training of Senior IPS police officers (Covenant Police Services) in social legislation, and vertical communication.
# Member: Mahila Dakshata Samiti to supervise five police stations in Zone II, in Mumbai in cases related to women 1996 up to date, appointed by the Commissioner of Police, Greater Mumbai.
# Member: Special State Level Committee for Rehabilitation of Trafficked Victims set up by the Maharashtra State Commission for Women Govt. of Maharashtra.
# Founder Member, Forum Against Child Sexual Exploitation, Mumbai.
# Member Expert Group on Women & Law of the National Commission for Women India 1999–2004
# Founder & National Convener Network Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation & Trafficking (NACSET)
# Co Director, Anti trafficking Center One of the two specialised Anti trafficking Centres supported by US Department of State in South Asia, through UNIFEM South Asia Regional Office (Looks after Research, Documentation, Clearing House of Information, E-mail Anti Trafficking News Service, Sensitization & Training, Networking, Advocacy & Lobbying etc. on Trafficking
# Member: Guidance & Monitoring Committee set up by High Court of Mumbai to supervise the Special Home for Rescued Juvenile Girls Deonar Mumbai.
# Member: State Level Advisory Committee Govt. of Maharashtra formed under the Immoral Traffic Act 1986. 2005 up to date
# Invited Member for Central Advisory committee Govt of India for implementation of anti trafficking programmes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gitamritam.com/profile/priti/|title=Priti Patkar Position's held}}</ref>

==Awards and accomplishments==

The Government of India acknowledged her work and incorporated the programme measures pioneered and standardised by her in the first National Plan of Action 1998 against trafficking of children and women. The United Nations invited her to speak before the United Nations Congress at Vienna in April 2000 as the Best Practice of working with the women victims of violence when the Optional protocol against Organized Crime was being finalised. Priti was invited as a Resource Person for the World AIDS Congress in Yokohama in as early as 1993 and at the Second World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children held at Yokohama Japan in 2000.

* Young Achiever Award 2000 (Indo American Society)
* Late Kalpana Chawla Award 2003
* Outstanding Woman of the Year Award 2003 (Rotary Club of Bombay)
* International Excellence Award 2005 (Lions Club)
* Stars Foundation (UK) Award for Child Protection 2009
* Laxmipat Singhania Award under 'Young Leader' for Community Service and Social Upliftment 2009
* Ahilyabai Holkar Award 2010 (Government of Maharashtra)
* Hirakani Puraskar 2013 (Doordarshan – Sahyadri)
* and an award from the Government of Maharashtra where she was felicitated by the Chief Minister – Shri Prithviraj Chawan in March 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://powai.info/2011/03/22/priti-patkar-of-powai-chief-of-ngo-prerana-is-a-woman-of-might/|title=Priti Patkar Awards}}</ref>
*"Human Rights Award" at 2014 Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards

==Research==

She has 7 books and several research reports to her credit published/released by The National Commission for Women, UNICEF, UNDP, USAID/FHI and others sponsored by Groupe Development (France), Concern India Foundation, USAID, etc.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://powai.info/2011/03/22/priti-patkar-of-powai-chief-of-ngo-prerana-is-a-woman-of-might/|title=Priti Patkar Books}}</ref>

Some of them are:-
# Completed Research Methodology I & II course at Tata Institute of Social Sciences
# One Year Certificate Course in Research Methodology at TISS
# Coordinator Mumbai chapter for the landmark study of Prostitution in India in 6 metropolitan cities by Central Social Welfare Board 1990.
# Research Co-Director “Six District Study of Trafficking of Children and situation of children of trafficking victim women” Report published by UNICEF Maharashtra.
# Co Director : Empirical Research On Sex Tourism on Indian West Coast sponsored & published by National Commission for Women India
# Director: Research project for UNDP in 2004. Interface between HIV and Trafficking<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gitamritam.com/profile/priti/|title=Priti Patkar's Research}}</ref>


==References== ==References==
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==External links== ==External links==
*http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/26/how-priti-patkar-and-prerana-changed-the-lives-of-children-of-sex-workers * – 2014 Guardian newspaper article
* http://www.preranaantitrafficking.org/ * – official website
* http://www.thebetterindia.com/6473/prerana-lighting-the-lamp-of-self-esteem-for-the-children-of-sex-workers/ * – article at The Better India website
* http://india.ashoka.org/fellow/priti-patkar * – archived profile from the Ashoka website
* http://ibnlive.in.com/shows/Real-Heroes/379944.html * – archived from IBN Live

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Priti Patkar
Priti Patkar
BornMumbai
Other namesPriti tai, Preeti Patkar
Alma materTata Institute of Social Sciences, Nirmala Niketan College of Social Work
Known forher work with women and children in red light districts of Mumbai. She conceptualised and founded world's first night care center for children of women working in red light districts.

Priti Patkar is an Indian social worker and human rights activist. She holds the position of co-founder and director at Prerana, an organization that has been a trailblazer in addressing issues within the red-light districts of Mumbai, India. Priti Patkar's efforts primarily focus on safeguarding children who are at risk of falling victim to commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking.

Personal life

Priti Patkar was born in Mumbai. Her father was a government servant and her mother ran a daycare program. She is a Gold Medalist from The Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai where she completed a Masters in Social Work. She is married to social activist Pravin Patkar.

Activism

Priti Patkar has been working for the protection and rescue of children and women victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation for over 30 years. She founded Prerana in 1986, after a research visit for her Masters in Social Work to the Kamathipura Red Light Area – where she witnessed three generations of women soliciting customers on the same street.

She is accredited with several path-breaking social interventions for the protection and dignity of children and women victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.

Patkar has to her credit the largest number of legal interventions and writ petitions in India to protect the rights and dignity of child and female victims of child sexual exploitation and trafficking.

References

  1. "Priti Patkar Profile". Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  2. "Unsung heroes". Archived from the original on 13 May 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  3. "Priti & Pravin Patkar". Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  4. "Saving children". www.theweekendleader.com. Archived from the original on 15 February 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  5. Mumbai, Arunima Rajan in (26 November 2014). "How Prerana's Priti Patkar has changed the lives of sex workers' children". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 20 February 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  6. "Woman of substance". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  7. "Woman of Might". Archived from the original on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014.

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