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15 साल की उम्र में 8 लोगों ने किया रेप, एसिड अटैक हुआ, अब तक 22 हजार महिलाओं को यौन तस्करी से आजाद करा चुकी है ये महिला

चैतन्य भारत न्यूज टेलीविजन के मशहूर रियलिटी शो 'कौन बनेगा करोड़पति' के 11वें सीजन में शुक्रवार को एक ऐसी महिला आई, जिसकी दर्दनाक कहानी सुनकर हर किसी की आंखें नम हो गईं। शुक्रवार को होने वाले कर्मवीर एपिसोड में इस बार समाज सेविका सुनीता कृष्णन ने शिरकत की। जब सुनीता 15 साल की थीं तो 8 लोगों ने उनका रेप किया था और पीट-पीटकर उनका कान तक डैमेज कर दिया था। सिर्फ इतना ही नहीं बल्कि कई बार सुनीता को अपने काम ��े दौरान जानलेवा हमलों का भी सामना करना पड़ा था। (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({});

कौन हैं सुनीता कृष्णन 1972 में जन्मीं सुनीता एक समाज सेविका हैं। उन्हें बचपन से ही समाज सेवा करना पसंद था। वह अपने घर के पास स्थित एक गांव में रहने वाले गरीब बच्चों की भी खूब मदद करती थीं। 8 साल की उम्र में सुनीता ने मानसिक रूप से दिव्यांग बच्चों को डांस सिखाना शुरू कर दिया था। 12 साल की उम्र में उन्होंने झुग्गियों में रहने वाले बच्चों के लिए स्कूल चलाना शुरू किया था। 15 साल की उम्र में सुनीता दलित वर्ग के लोगों के लिए कम्यूनिटी नव साक्षरता अभियान चला रही थीं। गांव में बच्चों को पढ़ाने के लिए वह एक दिन सभी इंतजाम कर रही थीं। 8 लोगों की एक गैंग को उनका यह काम पसंद नहीं आया और उन्होंने कहा कि यहां ‘पुरुष प्रधानता’ है। इसके बाद उन सभी ने मिलकर सुनीता के साथ गैंगरेप किया। इतना ही नहीं बल्कि उन लोगों ने सुनीता की बुरी तरह से पिटाई भी की थी, जिसमें सुनीता का एक कान खराब हो गया था। इस भयानक घटना के बाद से ही सुनीता की जिंदगी दहशत और दर्द से भर गई। इसके बाद सुनीता ने एक ऐसी संस्था बनाई जो यौन तस्करी की शिकार महिलाओं-लड़कियों के बचाव और उनके पुनर्वास के लिए काम करती हैं।

1996 में शुरू की संस्था सुनीता ने 'प्रज्ज्वला' नाम की एक संस्था अपने भाई जोश वेटिकाटिल के साथ मिलकर साल 1996 में शुरू की। साथ ही उन्होंने हैदराबाद में वेश्यावृत्ति में संलिप्त महिलाओं के बच्चों की शिक्षा के लिए अपने भाई को एक स्कूल खोलने के लिए राजी किया। सुनीता ने अपने बेमिसाल प्रयासों से अब तक करीब 22 हजार से ज्यादा महिलाओं और लड़कियों को यौन तस्करी से आजाद किया है।

एसिड अटैक भी हुआ सुनीता ने ‘केबीसी’ में बताया कि, यह काम करना आसान नहीं है। इस काम के चलते अब तक सुनीता पर 17 बार जानलेवा हमले हो चुके हैं। उनपर ऑटो रिक्शा में हमला किया गया, एसिड फेंका गया, जहर खिलाने की कोशिश की गई, भीड़ ने हमला किया, तलवार से भी हमला किया गया। इतनी बार हमले के बावजूद सुनीता बाल-बाल बच गईं। उनका कहना है कि, ‘मैं मरने से नहीं डरती हूं। जब तक मेरी सांस है, तब तक दूसरी लड़कियां जो इस तरह से पीड़ित वेश्यालयों में हैं, उनके लिए मैं अपनी जिंदगी को कमिट करूंगी।’

पद्मश्री से सम्मानित किया गया सुनीता के इस नेक काम के लिए उन्हें साल 2016 में देश का चौथा सर्वोच्च सम्मान 'पद्मश्री' से भी सम्मानित किया जा चुका है। साथ ही उन्हें मदर टेरेसा अवार्ड भी दिया गया है। सुनीता के पति का नाम राजेश टचरीवर है, जो फिल्म मेकर हैं। बता दें सुनीता कृष्णनन ने एचआईवी, वेश्यावृति, तस्करी समेत अन्य गंभीर सामाजिक विषयों पर आधारित 14 डॉक्यूमेंट्री फिल्में भी बनाई है। ये भी पढ़े... अंतरिक्ष में बना इतिहास : बिना पुरुष साथी के पहली बार महिलाओं ने स्पेसवॉक कर बनाया रिकॉर्ड मुस्लिम महिलाओं ने रावण के साथ किया इन दस बुराइयों का दहन मिड डे मील बनाने वाली महिला बनीं चुनाव आयोग की ब्रैंड एंबेसडर, केबीसी में जीते थे 1 करोड़ रुपए Read the full article

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http://thelogicalindian.com/story-feed/get-inspired/i-couldnt-even-tell-them-i-was-5-months-pregnant-because-their-feet-were-on-my-mouth/

This was the first story I read for my research. It is so sad to see that man would go to such extremes to prove his power. I wondered if they feel have such high levels of an inferiority complex that they would have to be so violent and hurt people to get a point across. Just to make themselves feel that they are better and their views are right, also that they have the power to hurt someone else like that.              

http://thelogicalindian.com/story-feed/exclusive/sunitha-krishnana-a-survivor-and-a-fighter/

I first found out about Sunitha Krishnan on her TEDx talk back in 2009 I believe. While most people don’t pay attention to what happens to the victims after rape. Dr. Krishnan helps victims who are being forced to prostitution, she rescues these girls and then helps them build careers and stand on their own feet.

http://thelogicalindian.com/my-story/no-one-wants-to-be-beaten-up-get-raped-or-sell-their-bodies/

If you have watched BBC’s documentary known as India’s daughter, you will get a clear understanding of what some men think of women and the causes of rape. Some people blame rape victims for being raped, this is a story of a woman who was quite a rebellious young lady.  She has faced domestic violence, slut shaming and other horrible things. In her opinion, she thinks it’s time to start respecting each other and I completely agree with that.

http://thelogicalindian.com/story-feed/exclusive/cctv-footage-delhi-police-sub-inspector-rapes-woman-at-gunpoint/

As I had mentioned earlier in the post, the law system in India is not rigid enough. Due to high corruption levels the system of justice fails miserably. This is the story of a woman who was raped by an authority figure (police officer). When women fear to report rape cases to begin with, it is horrible to hear the people who’s job is to help protect, serve and assure victims end up hurting them instead of protecting them.  

https://www.facebook.com/SteupsTT/videos/946503365389318/

Here is majority of the BBC’s documentary, it is hard to find it online anymore since it has been banned.  

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Women’s Rights Around the World

“I live for the smiles of the children I have rescued. I live for the hope in their eyes.” This quote from Sunitha Krishnan certainly describes her life’s work. Krishnan who was a victim of gang rape at age 15 has now become a world leader in the fight against the sex trafficking of women and children. Sunitha Krishnan is a hero in every sense of the word and someone that everyone, men and women alike, can get behind and support. 

Krishnan was born in Banagalore, India. Her father was a mapmaker and traveled the country, surveying and making more maps. Krishnan would join her father on these trips as a young girl and was able to see most of the country while she was very young. Krishnan has always had a burden for the less fortunate; she showed this while she was still young when she began offering dance lessons for special needs children and began running a school at the age of 12 in slum neighborhoods for deprived children. At the age of 15, while working in a Dalit community (the lowest caste system in India, formerly known as the “untouchables”) to help newly literate adults and children, Krishnan was gang raped by 8 men. But Krishnan looks back at the incident and draws strength from it- she survived it and now she will help others do the same. 

In 1996, in Hyderabad, India, thousands of prostitutes and other sex workers were shut down and forbidden to continue their practices. Krishnan, hearing about the now homeless women and children, partnered with a missionary in India and used the empty brothel as a transition school for them. Krishnan used this first home as a stepping stool to start many more around the country. To date, Krishnan has either rescued, rehibilitated, or served more than 12,000 victims of sex trafficking. This makes her operation the largest anti-trafficking operation in the world. Krishnan not only helps bring women and children, who are mostly HIV positive, out of the sex-trafficking industry, but also brings children of sex workers into her shelters to prevent them from getting involved with their parent’s work. At her centers, the survivors are taught a trade- carpentry, welding, printing, masonry, or housekeeping- to ensure once they leave the center they will have a skill to find a job and not return to their previous work. 

The most amazing thing about Sunitha Krishnan and her organization “Prajwala” is that despite the many centers in India and its 200 employees, Krishnan is full-time volunteer- no one has to pay to stay at her centers. And she doesn’t receive many donations from within India. Krishnan and her husband decided at the start of Prajwala that she would get money from writing books on the dangers of sex trafficking, how to help people who were sex workers, and how to counsel people with HIV/AIDS and also giving speeches at seminars and meetings worldwide. 

Krishnan also works with local police departments and the Women Protection cell, works closely with local government, conducts workshops for social workers and government leaders to attend and tells them how to properly handle cases of sex trafficking and illegal prostitution rings. 

It’s shocking how few people know about this amazing woman. She’s not fighting for women’s rights- she’s fighting for human rights. Sunitha Krishnan made the best of a horrible situation as a 15-year-old and is now making the world a better place. 

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I just found out about this website called TED, which is a non-profit organization to spread ideas around. Their topic range from science to global issues unfolding around the world. They bring guest speakers around the world to talk about issues concerning to them. It's pretty interesting, you should check it out.

I found this particular video while browsing through the site. I must admit, it was a very hard video to watch. That's why I want to warn people there are disturbing images during this video. I could hardly get through it myself because of the stories Sunitha Krishnan was talking about.

However, I posted this video because I wanted people to know that human trafficking still does exist around the world. It's good to be aware about it, like Sunitha said, and spread the message around. *Link is found in the blog's title.