Mother Teresa Memorial Awards

2019

For launching the unique programme "THE SCHOOL FOR JUSTICE" that supports and trains rescued girls to become advocates to fight for the cause

For continuously upholding ethical medical practices against forced organ harvesting

For economically empowering more than 72,000 vulnerable victims who would have fallen prey to trafficking

For spearheading the international campaign through the United Nations against the use of child soldiers in war

For addressing the larger issue of commercial sex exploitation and trafficking

For its undaunted determination towards rescuing Yazidi women and girls held in captivity by ISIS as sex slaves

For reforming and rehabilitating child soldiers rescued from armed groups

For freeing over 30,000 bonded labourers and earnestly committing to eradicate the practice in the State of Karnataka

For exposing the hidden world of male sex slavery and rehabilitating them

For his efforts in creating the first red-light area free from the commercial sexual exploitation of minors in India

For the fight against child labour and trafficking in India and Southeast Asia