Kailash Satyarthi
Kailash Satyarthi
Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian children's rights and education advocate and an activist against child labour. He founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolanin 1980 and has acted to protect the rights of more than 83,000 children from 144 countries. It is largely because of Satyarthi's work and activism that the International Labour Organization adopted Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child labour, which is now a principal guideline for governments around the world...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth11 January 1954
CountryIndia
Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.
If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age
I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils
We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.
I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.
India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions.
Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and those who can sell it make money out of it
A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery