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Kailash Satyarthi: Child Rights Activist

Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian social reformer who has campaigned against child labor in India and advocated for universal access to education. He founded multiple organizations focused on ending child labor and promoting education. Satyarthi and his organizations have liberated over 86,000 children from child labor, slavery, and trafficking. In 1998, he led the Global March against Child Labor, an 80,000 km march across 103 countries that helped lead to an ILO convention banning the worst forms of child labor. Satyarthi received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for his efforts to end oppression of children and promote their right to education.

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Kailash Satyarthi: Child Rights Activist

Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian social reformer who has campaigned against child labor in India and advocated for universal access to education. He founded multiple organizations focused on ending child labor and promoting education. Satyarthi and his organizations have liberated over 86,000 children from child labor, slavery, and trafficking. In 1998, he led the Global March against Child Labor, an 80,000 km march across 103 countries that helped lead to an ILO convention banning the worst forms of child labor. Satyarthi received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for his efforts to end oppression of children and promote their right to education.

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Kailash Satyarthi

Introduction: Satyarthi was born in a Brahmin family in Vidisha, a small town in the Indian
state of Madhya Pradesh into a middy. He is the youngest among four brothers and a sister in
his family. His father was a retired police head constable and his mother was an uneducated
housewife with high morals. As per Satyarthi, this exceptionally idealistic and helpful nature
of his mother had a big impact on him. He was raised in a locality (mohalla) where Hindus
and Muslims lived with each other. As a four-year-old toddler, he learned to read Urdu from
the Maulvi at the neighbouring mosque and learned Hindi and English in his school.
Satyarthi was significantly affected by the lack of school access for all children and his
experiences with poverty in his youth. He made efforts when young to try to change these
inequalities due to the circumstances of their birth.
Satyarthi completed his education in Vidisha. He attended Government Boys Higher
Secondary School in Vidisha, and completed an undergraduate degree in electrical
engineering[14] at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute in Vidisha then affiliated to the
University of Bhopal, (now Barkatullah University)] and a post-graduate degree in high-
voltage engineering. Satyarthi joined his college as a lecturer for a few years.
Work And Achievements:

Kailash Satyarthi (born 11 January 1954) is an Indian social reformer who campaigned


against child labour in india and advocated the universal right to education. In 2014, he was
the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace prize, along with Malala Yousafzai, "for their struggle
against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to
education." He is the founder of multiple social activist organizations, including Bachpan
Bachao Andolan, Global march against child labour, Global campaign for education, Kailash
Satyarthi Children's Foundation and Bal Ashram Trust.
Kailash Satyarthi and his team at Bachpan Bachao Andolan have liberated more than
86,000 children in India from child labour, slavery and trafficking. In 1998, Satyarthi
conceived and led the Global March against Child Labour, n 80,000 km (ca. 49,710 mi)-long
march across 103 countries to put forth a global demand against worst forms of child labour.
This became one of the largest social movements ever on behalf of exploited children. The
demands of the marchers, which included children and youth (particularly the survivors of
trafficking for forced labour, exploitation, sexual abuse, illegal organ transplants, armed
conflict, etc.) were reflected in the draft of the ILO Convection 182 on the Worst Forms of
Child Labour. The following year, the Convention was unanimously adopted at the ILO
Conference in Geneva.
He has served on the board and committee of several international organisations including
the Centr for victims of trafficking (USA), the International Rights Fund Organisation (USA),
and the Cocoa Initiative. Satyarthi was among Fortune magazine's "World's Greatest
Leaders" in 2015[6] and featured in LinkedIn's Power Profiles List in 2017 and 2018. Satyarthi
led a nationwide march, Bharat Yatra, in India covering 19,000 km (12,000 mi) in 35 days, to
demand for legislation against child rape, child sexual abuse and trafficking.

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