 Patkar has to her credit the largest number of legal interventions and writ petitions in India to protect the rights and dignity of child and female victims of child sexual exploitation and trafficking.The Government of India acknowledged her work and incorporated measures pioneered and standardised by her in the first National Plan of Action 1998 against the trafficking of children and women.The United Nations invited her to speak before the United Nations Congress at Vienna in April 2000, as the pioneer of the Best Practice working with female victims of violence, when the optional protocol against organised crime was being finalised.