Anuja Gupta Email & Phone Number

New Delhi, Dl, In

I started RAHI (Recovering and Healing from Incest) Foundation in 1996. RAHI is a support centre for adult women survivors of incest and child sexual abuse (CSA) and an education, advocacy, training, research and communication in the field.RAHI is the only organisation of its kind in India.I am an incest/CSA educator, trainer and counsellor. I do individual and group therapy with adult women survivors and their supporters, and with non-abusive family members of child victims. My therapeutic approach is a blend of feminist counselling, narrative therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and psychodrama. I conduct training with mental health professionals, students and social workers and lecture and present extensively on the subject at universities, schools, conferences, NGOs and other forums in the country and abroad. I help start and mentor other organisations and support groups working on child sexual abuse in the country.

I coordinated an all-India campaign on 'Prevention of Sexual Violence Against Women' started by a feminist group in New Delhi. My job entailed networking and organising meetings with women activists, journalists and lawyers from all over the country; working with lawyers on recommendations for changes in the Indian Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code in sections dealing with sexual violence and submitting them to the Law Commission; intervening in sexual harassment cases; negotiating with the National Commission for Women; organising a public meeting on the issue of Sexual Harassment at the Workplace/Educational Institutions; giving interviews to the media.

Taught French as a Foreign Language to adult students from 1st - 4th semesters.

AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan (ABVA), New Delhi, a human rights anti-discrimination group focusing on HIV/AIDS related issues. Group activities included organising protests with regard to human rights violations of people with HIV/AIDS and other targeted groups such as sex workers, commercial blood donors and gay men. I worked with the group for drawing and filing a public interest litigation in the Delhi High Court challenging the constitutional validity of the sodomy law, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and asking for the distribution of condoms to prisoners. I represented the group in a pornography case involving ABVA's report 'Less than Gay: the status of homosexuality in India' and the Sunday magazine at the Press Council of India. I was involved in researching and documenting 2 ABVA reports: 'This Sugar is Bitter' on HIV/AIDS and chemical dependency; 'Hard Times for Positive Travel' on HIV/AIDS and the status of travellers.

These were groups I helped start in memory of my brother Sidhhartha Gautam, a well known activist and lawyer, to work on issues related to sexuaity, HIV/AIDS and Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgendered (LGBT) rights. We held film shows, puppet shows, street plays, exhibitions and lectures on HIV/AIDS, women's sexuality, lesbian and gay sexuality in universities and public places.I was part of a group that curated India's first annual lesbian & gay film festival for 10 years. I represented India to testify on human rights violations of people in the country based on sexual identity and HIV status, at the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission in New York in 1996. I represented the FSG group in the San Fransisco LGBT Film Festival in 2001.

I was in charge of the documentation of audio-video material of the centre and did translations of documents in French-English-French.

I taught English as a Foreign Language to French Managing Directors, Senior Managers and Executives in the corporate and business sectors.

I developed and presented advertising material for a wide range of products for the print and electronic media.

I taught Hindi and Sanskrit to children of classes 1-5.