Arun Pandey is a law graduate and a post graduate in criminology & correctional administration from Tata Institute Of Social Science, Mumbai.
He worked as a senior researcher at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and was involved in a national study on Human Trafficking for CSE from 1994 to1997.
He is one of the founder members of Arz (anyay rahit zindagi) an NGO working in Goa since 1998 on trafficking related to commercial sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse.
Arun has been actively involved in prevention, rescue, rehabilitation of victims of child sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation. He has been conducting training program for Judicial Officers, Civil Servants, Police, and Service Providers.
He has conducted various research and published various articles, books, SOP’s on the issue relating to crime prevention, child sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and community intervention.
Arun has been conferred the prestigious ICSDAP (International Consortium for Social Development -Asia Pacific) Presidential Award winner for the year 2021. Under the leadership of Arun, Arz was awarded best NGO by Ministry of Home Affairs Government of India in 2011 and ” Nari Shakti” Award by Ministry of Women & Child Development, Govt of India in 2014 for the economic rehabilitation unit Swift Wash set up by Arz for the rehabilitation of victims of sexual violence in Goa.