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Noble Prize Winner: Kailash Satyarthi

Satyarthi has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 for his struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the rights of all children to education. Satyarthi is the fifth Nobel Prize winner for India and only the second Indian winner of the Nobel Peace Prize after Mother Teresa in 1979.

Originally named Kailash Sharma, Satyarthi was born on I 1 January 1954 in the Vidisha district of central Indian state Madhya Pradesh. He attended Government Boys Higher Secondary School and completed his degree in Electrical Engineering at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, Vidisha. He acquired a post-graduate degree in High-voltage Engineering. He then joined a college in Bhopal as a lecturer for a few years. Kailash Sharma is an Indian children’s rights advocate and an activist against child labour. He founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan in 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. In 1980, he gave up his career as a teacher and became Secretary-General for the Bonded Labour Liberation Front. In the same year, he also founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan. He has also been involved with the Global March Against Child Labour and its international advocacy body, the International Center on Child. (He lives in New Delhi, India. His family includes his wife, a son, daughter-in-law, and a daughter. He has been described as an excellent cook).

Satyarthi has highlighted child labour as a human rights issue as well as a welfare matter and charitable cause. He has argued that it perpetuates Poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social Problems, and his claims have been supported by several studies. He has also played a role in linking the movement against child labour with efforts for achieving “Education for All”. Satyarthi serves on the board and committee of several international organisations including the Center for Victims of Torture (USA) and the International Labour Rights Fund (USA). He is now reportedly working on bringing child labour and slavery into the level 2015 development agenda for the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals.

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