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FEARLESS: Neha Dixit has worked as an investigative journalist for over 12 years. Dixit’s reports have often had national and international impact. In January 2019, the Office of the High Commissioner for United Nations Human Rights wrote to the Indian government taking cognizance of her in-depth expose on the extrajudicial killings of poor Muslims in Uttar Pradesh by the state police. She was also the first journalist to uncover documentary evidence revealing how right wing religious fundamentalists in India were regularly trafficking tribal girls to ideologically brainwash them. After her report, several girls were rehabilitated with their families. It was also her report on illegal clinical trials in India that revealed how the poor as being used as guinea pigs by multinational pharmaceutical companies. She also broke the story on how women from religious minorities faced sexual violence and mass rapes during the Muzaffarnagar sectarian violence in 2013