Biography
Pravin Patkar, Ph.D., is a co-founder and director of an anti-human trafficking civil society organization named Prerana, which has been running since 1986. It provides a wide range of ground-breaking victim assistance services on a 24X7 daily basis in the midst of Mumbai’s largest redlight area. It provides a night care centre (perhaps the world’s first night creche) for the care and protection of children of redlight areas based on prostituted women, an education and support programme, institutionalization as the last resort of child protection, rehabilitation, aftercare/post institutionalization care, shelter facilities, post-rescue operations, and a whole range of knowledge building and advocacy programmes for the past 35 years in Mumbai and in South Asia. It regularly trains police, judicial officers, service providers, media and other stakeholders on human trafficking and anti-human trafficking. (www.fighttrafficking.org)
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Patkar, Pravin (2024) "Against the Mainstreaming of the Term Sex Work: Advocacy with India's Supreme Court," Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence: Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.23860/dignity.2024.09.01.02
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