Many people are known to work for the upliftment of the underprivileged children in slums and urban areas. Amongst all the very known name is of the nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi. Here is the know how about him
Who is
Kailash Satyarthi?
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Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian children's rights activist
and who won 2014 Nobel Peace together with Malala Yousafzai.
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He has been active in the Indian movement against child
labour since the 1990s.
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Kailash Satyarthi runs Bachpan Bachao Andolan, an India-based
movement campaigning for the rights of children and is also trying to bring an
end to human trafficking.
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Bachpan Bachao Andolan, has freed over 80,000 children from
various forms of hardship and labour and has emerged as the largest civil
society grassroots movement on child rights supported by innumerable
individuals and around 750 civil society organisations
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He got this prize for his struggle against the suppression
of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.
Work
of Kailash Satyarthi
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Satyarthi has campaigned worldwide on social issues
involving children.
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He has worked with: The Global March Against Child Labor,
International advocacy body of Global March Against Child Labor, Global Campaign
for Education.
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He also has the credit of establishing Rugmark (now known as
Goodweave) as the first voluntary labelling, monitoring and certification
system of rugs manufactured without the use of child-labour in South Asia.
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Satyarthi has highlighted child labor as a human rights
issue as well as a welfare matter and charitable cause.
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Kailash Satyarthi
believes that child labour gives birth to poverty, unemployment, illiteracy,
population growth and other social problems.
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