Ria Sharma is a social activist and the first Indian to receive the UNICEF Global Goals Awards for 2017.

[2][3] Sharma is the founder of NGO Make Love Not Scars that works in all aspects of rehabilitation for acid attack survivors in India.

[8] In 2014, Sharma founded Make Love Not Scars (MLNS) to support acid attack victims who are mostly women.

[13] End Acid Sale made history by being the first Indian campaign in 7 years to win the Cannes Gold Lion in Film[14] In April 2015, The Supreme Court made it mandatory for both private and government hospitals across the country to provide full and free medical treatment to the victims.

The award recognizes an individual who has made extraordinary efforts to lead a campaign, group or movement that has served to protect and better the lives of women and girls in a region, country or globally.