The upper house of the Indian Parliament has just passed the much awaited Child Labour Amendment Bill. If the Lok Sabha also clears this bill, we will not see an end to child labour any time soon.
It's always good to walk a few more miles but we should not celebrate unless we have reached our destination.
In rescuing an estimated 85,000 victims of trafficking, slavery and child labor, Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi has risked his life and been severely beaten.
Satyarthi, who was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 with Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan for their fight against the exploitation of children, isn't afraid to put his life on the line.
“I prefer to die lying on the ground for a worthy cause instead of dying in bed,” said Satyarthi, 62. “We all die sooner or later. The greater the peril, the greater the gain.”
Indian Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi presided over the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, organized under the auspices of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The three-day meet celebrated the struggle and vision of Satyarthi, the first Indian to preside over the Forum. It concentrated extensively on his work and achievements in the field of child rights, according to a press release.
The worldwide political environment is increasingly more inward-looking than internationalist, more angry than empathetic. So the theme of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize Forum — “globalizing compassion” — is a welcome counternarrative.
The forum, the only event the Norwegian Nobel Institute holds outside of Norway, runs from Monday through Wednesday at the Radisson Blu Mall of America. Among many notable speakers will be honored laureate Kailash Satyarthi, who along with Malala Yousafzai was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
Nobel Laureate and child activist Kailash Satyarthi urged entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley to unite for the cause of children in his keynote address at the TiECON 2016.
Held at the Santa Clara Convention hall in San Jose earlier this month, Satyarthi said, "This is the valley of leadership, entrepreneurship, technology, innovation and disruption. If we join them together, we can give children a chance to be able to enjoy their childhood and get an education. This is the purpose of my visit to the Silicon Valley," he said.
ISTANBUL, May 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world must give urgent attention to children caught up in conflict, disasters or exploitation, Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Monday, and leave no child behind.
Children make up about half of the rising numbers of people affected by war and natural disasters, and there are many more who are caught up in forced labor or slavery, Satyarthi told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The United Nations organized summit aims to set a new agenda for global humanitarian action, focusing on humanitarian effectiveness, reducing vulnerability and managing risk, transformation through innovation, and serving the needs of people in crises.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The most poignant moment of the two-day TiE 2016 conference, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center May 6 and 7, came during the final hours on the second day of the convention.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi called for the large Indian community in the Bay Area to take the lead and contribute to the cause of eliminating child slavery in India, as well as around the world, during a local event on May 7. Referring to the “academic wealth” of the community, Satyarthi said the Indian populace in the region could play a major role for promoting the welfare of children.
Kailash Satyarthi, recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, will travel to Silicon Valley for a two-day visit beginning May 6, where he will engage with the Indian Diaspora and leading local and Indian-American community leaders from the region.
The last year has seen such blatant violations of children’s rights that instead of being shocked the international community has sadly begun to accept these abuses as normal.
Kailash Satyarthi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year for his decadeslong campaign on children’s rights, will become the first Indian to be awarded the title of “Humanitarian of the Year” by the Harvard Foundation.
Mr. Satyarthi will receive the award on Friday during a ceremony hosted at the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi has dedicated his entire life to ending child labor and child trafficking.
35 years ago, he set up the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement) and has rescued over 85,000 children globally.
Satyarthi is also the head of The Global March Against Childhood Labor which represents 2,000 social groups in 140 countries.
CCTV’s Shraysi Tandon sat down with Satyarthi and they talk about the issue of child labor and child trafficking.
The story begins like a nightmarish fairy tale.
A newlywed couple is lured away, along with fellow villagers, and imprisoned in a remote brick factory. They work as slaves for 17 years, never leaving the grounds, bearing children who also become slaves.
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Governments must address human trafficking and slavery in a global development pact later this year, Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Monday, warning that the credibility of humanity was at stake if countries failed to deliver.
United Nations member states aim to agree in September a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)- targets for making progress and reducing inequality in areas such as poverty, health, education, women's rights and climate change by 2030.
To mark the refresh of our child rights and business hub, we’ve compiled a list of who’s tweeting on the issues we’ll be covering
Twitter list: nine top tweeters on business and child rights To mark the refresh of our child rights and business hub, we’ve compiled a list of who’s tweeting on the issues we’ll be covering We’ve compiled a list of the top tweeters around the child rights issues we’ll be covering. Have we missed someone off this list? Add your suggestion in the comments thread below.
I have always been fascinated by the question: How can for-profit corporations innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? My passion for this topic was formed at a very early age. Growing up in India, I realized that the country has too few resources to confront its many challenges; the only way India can hope to solve its problems is through innovation.
Social entrepreneurship has emerged over the past several decades as a way to identify and bring about potentially transformative societal change. A hybrid of government intervention and pure business entrepreneurship, social ventures can address problems that are too narrow in scope to spark legislative activism or to attract private capital.
Can we really call ourselves civilised when 168 million children are child labourers out of which 85 million are engaged in seriously hazardous work?
A few days ago I attended the international launch of the Global Monitoring Report on Education for All goals. This is the annual report card of the governments and international community on their performance in delivering education. This time around the report spells out the achievements and challenges faced during the period 2000-2015.
These extraordinary men and women are transforming business, government, philanthropy, and so much more.
Though overshadowed by last year’s other recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Satyarthi has led the global fight against child labor for more than three decades. Founded in 1980, his Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement) has protected the rights of some 83,000 children around the world. Child labor, he says, is as much an economic issue, perpetuating poverty and illiteracy, as it is about human rights. In any case, no one has done as much to prevent it as he has.
“All my best ideas were born of anger,” says children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi. As the first speaker in the closing session of TED2015, Satyarthi shows how fury can be an underestimated power to make change.
“All my best ideas were born of anger,” says children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi. As the first speaker in the closing session of TED2015, Satyarthi shows how fury can be an underestimated power to make change.
IT'S HOW I HAVE ALWAYS FELT WHEN A CHILD IS A VICTIM. WHY COULDN'T IT BE ME INSTEAD? WHY COULDN'T I BEAR THE SUFFERING SO THAT INNOCENT CHILDREN WOULD NOT BE HURT?
I know that I am not alone in feeling this way and I know that these thoughts are futile. It is only through the work of rescuing children from abusive situations, from uniting children with their families and helping them rebuild their future that I have been able to sometimes find temporary peace.
SATYARTHI RECENTLY MET WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA BUT GETTING A GREETING FROM THE CHILDREN IS ALL THE REWARD SATYARTHI NEEDS FOR FREEING THEM FROM A LIFE OF SLAVERY. STILL, SATYARTHI SAYS, HE DOESN'T THINK THE KIDS SEE HIM AS A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER.
ENDING THEIR THREE-DAY VISIT TO INDIA, US PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA BID GOODBYE WITH A NAMASTE GESTURE AND FLEW FOR THEIR NEXT STOPOVER – SAUDI ARABIA.
AFTER HAVING MET WITH THE UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL, BAN KI-MOON IN NEW DELHI ON JANUARY 12, I AM VERY HOPEFUL THAT THE UN AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WILL PRIORITISE THE ABOLITION OF CHILD SLAVERY IN THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA. I HAVE PRESENTED HIM A PETITION SIGNED BY AROUND 550,000 PEOPLE FROM ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE WITH A DEMAND TO INCLUDE AN EXPLICIT LANGUAGE ON CHILD SLAVERY IN THE NEW SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS) WHICH WILL REPLACE THE 8 MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGS) IN 2016.
WHERE DOES THAT SORT OF MORAL IMAGINATION — AND THE COURAGE TO ACT ON IT — COME FROM? RESEARCHERS HAVE FOUND THAT PEOPLE WHO DISPLAY MORAL COURAGE OFTEN PERCEIVE THEMSELVES TO BE “STRONGLY LINKED TO OTHERS THROUGH A SHARED HUMANITY” AND FEEL A SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY THAT IS NOT LIMITED TO INTIMATES. HOW THIS CONVICTION TAKES SHAPE IS LARGELY A MYSTERY: THE SCIENCE OF ALTRUISM IS STILL YOUNG.
FOLLOWING THE MASSACRE AT A SCHOOL IN THE PAKISTANI CITY OF PESHAWAR WHICH LEFT 141 PEOPLE DEAD, THE INDIAN CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND NOBEL LAUREATE KAILASH SATYARTHI HAS CALLED ON THE TALIBAN TERROR GROUP TO TAKE HIM INSTEAD OF CHILDREN.
“I beg the Taliban, take me and leave these children,” he told NDTV following the news that over 100 children were killed at the military school.
“It’s the most shocking incident, in my knowledge, in my life. These children are my children” said Satyarthi.
WASHINGTON, December 10, 2014—World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim welcomed the awarding of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Peace to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi today in Stockholm:
TO THUNDEROUS AND SUSTAINED APPLAUSE, PAKISTAN'S MALALA YOUSAFZAI AND INDIA'SKAILASH SATYARTHI RECEIVED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE ON WEDNESDAY, AN AWARD THAT A NOBEL OFFICIAL SAID HE HOPES ENCOURAGES OTHERS TO FIGHT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S RIGHTS.
Kailash Satyarthi delivered his Nobel Lecture on 10 December 2014 at the Oslo City Hall, Norway.
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Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize alongside Malala “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.”
WINNING THE NOBEL PEACE PRICE WITH MALALA YOUSAFZAI REINFORCED MY BELIEF THAT WORKING TOGETHER WE CAN END SLAVERY AND CHANGE CHILDREN’S LIVES FOR THE BETTER.
BY CONFERRING THE NOBEL PRIZE ON MALALA AND I, THE NOBEL COMMITTEE HAS RECOGNISED ONE OF THE MOST PRESSING YET NEGLECTED ISSUES OF OUR TIMES. MILLIONS OF CHILDREN STILL REMAIN INVISIBLE, VOICELESS AND UNHEARD. DURING THE LAST FEW WEEKS, THEIR SUFFERING HAS GOT UNPRECEDENTED ATTENTION BY THE LAW MAKERS, JUDICIARY AND CIVIL SOCIETY NOT ONLY IN INDIA BUT WORLDWIDE.
NEW DELHI, DEC. 28 (AP) — FOR TWO YEARS, BHOLA WORKED MORE THAN 15 HOURS A DAY WITHOUT BEING PAID OR ALLOWED TO VISIT HIS PARENTS. ON THURSDAY, A LOCAL PRIVATE ORGANIZATION FREED BHOLA, NOW 12, AND 49 OTHER CHILD LABORERS LIKE HIM.
The children are all boys between the ages of 8 and 14 whose parents are poor farm laborers in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. They were brought to New Delhi to work in small factories making elaborately embroidered fabric, which is called zari.