Kailash Satyarthi

Kailash Satyarthi
Kailash in 2015
Born
Kailash Sharma[1][2]

(1954-01-11) 11 January 1954 (age 70)
Vidisha, Madhya Bharat
(now Madhya Pradesh) India
Alma materBarkatullah University (B.E., M.E.)
Known forActivism for children's rights and children's education
SpouseSumedha Satyarthi
ParentRamprasad Sharma Chironjibai
AwardsNobel Peace Prize (2014)
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award (1995)[3]

Kailash Satyarthi (born 11 January 1954) is an Indian social reformer who campaigned against child labor 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[4] children in India from child labour, slavery and trafficking. In 1998, Satyarthi conceived and led the Global March against Child Labour,[5] an 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 labor, exploitation, sexual abuse, illegal organ transplants, armed conflict, etc.) were reflected in the draft of the ILO Convention 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 organizations including the Center for Victims of Torture (USA), the International Labor Rights Fund (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.[7] Satyarthi led a nationwide march, Bharat Yatra,[8] in India covering 19,000 km (12,000 mi) in 35 days, to demand for legislation against child rape and child Prostitution.

  1. ^ Kidwai, Rasheed (10 October 2014). "A street rings with 'Nobel' cry". The Telegraph (Calcutta). Calcutta. Archived from the original on 14 October 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2014. arr Quila area of the town. […] locals were seen drawing affiliation to institutions linked to Satyarhti including his schools – Toppura Primary School, Petit semenaire Higher Secondary School and Samrat Ashok Technological Institute (SATI) from where Satyarthi graduated in Engineering and later taught there for two years before embarking his journey to serve humanity.
  2. ^ Kapoor, Sapan (11 October 2014). "Gandhiji would have been proud of you, Kailash Satyarthi". The Express Tribune Blogs. Karachi. Retrieved 14 October 2014. Mr Kailash Satyarthi has come a long way since his engineering days at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, literally. My father, who was one year senior to this electrical engineering student, vividly remembers him […] who would come to the college in his staple kurta-payjama with a muffler tied around his neck.
  3. ^ "Brief Profile – Kailash Satyarthi". 10 October 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  4. ^ "Home – Bachpan Bachao Andolan". Bba.org.in. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  5. ^ "How we started | Global March Against Child Labour". www.globalmarch.org. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  6. ^ Singh, Yoshita (27 March 2015). "Modi, Kailash Satyarthi among Fortune's list of world's greatest leaders". livemint.com. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Modi, Priyanka Feature in LinkedIn Power Profiles List of 2017". News18. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  8. ^ "19,000 km in 35 days: Kailash Satyarthi's Bharat Yatra culminates at Rashtrapati Bhavan". The Statesman. 16 October 2017. Retrieved 6 November 2017.