Kailash satyarthi"I recall how thousands of times, I have been liberated, each time I have freed a child from slavery. In the first smile of freedom on their beautiful faces, I see the Gods smiling…"

Childhood & Early LifeKailash Satyarthi was born on 11 January 1953 in Vidisha, a

small town in Madhya Pradesh, a state in India. Even as a child he was a very compassionate individual. He noticed that some children did not go to school like he did and instead worked under harsh conditions to earn money.

Disturbed by the inequalities he witnessed, he decided to do something about it. He asked his classmates to donate textbooks and money to the underprivileged so that the poor kids too got a chance to study.

He studied electrical engineering in a Bhopal college and went on to earn a post-graduate diploma in high-voltage engineering.

Movement Against Child LaborNobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi gave up his job

as an electrical engineer to dedicate himself to protecting and advancing child rights for over three decades now, freeing 80,000 child laborers and giving them new hope in life.

From the factories exploiting children in the country’s biggest cities like Delhi and Mumbai to the hinterland of Odisha and Jharkhand where children are still illegally employed as bonded laborers, his organization has rescued them in almost all parts of country.

He has advocated for stricter laws against child trafficking and labor and met with mixed success so far.

I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

-Kailash Satyarthi

He also played an important role in the movement for Right to Education law for free compulsory education to children.

He created the Global March Against Child Labour, a movement that is active in many countries. He is also credited with establishing Rugark, now known as Good Weave, in 1994.

He also founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement)

 He has also served as the President of the GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION, from its inception in 1999 to 2011, having been one of its four founders.

I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to

school. A world in which every child gets his rights.

-Kailash Satyarthi

He has been a member of a UNESCO body established to examine Child rights and has been on the board of the Fast Track Initiative (the Global Partnership for Education).

Satyarthi serves on the board and committee of several international organisations including the Center for Victims of Torture(USA), the International Labor Rights Fund (USA), and the International Cocoa Foundation.

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in

my lifetime.-Kailash Satyarthi

How Kailash Satyarthi helped a bunch of reporters bust a child labour racket

Basic idea behind the incident!!!There was a devastating fire in an illegal factory in

central Delhi's Beadonpura. It had left six charred to death. They couldn't escape the fire at night because they were locked in by the factory owner lest they escape. The incident was widely reported for a few days and then it vanished.

A little sniffing around revealed a sordid reality buried in the heart of the capital. These areas, part of Karol Bagh, were home to a number of jewellery factories that employed children from West Bengal. Some of them as young as eight. I had met Satyarthi at one of his numerous conferences that he held to garner media support for the cause of missing children and child labour.

We were looking for more than just a story. We wanted to rescue these children and rehabilitate them. Satyarthi assigned his Bachpan Bachao Aandolan colleague Rakesh Sengar to work with us. We had to be discreet, we had to have evidence beforehand, and we had to have this all on tape to precede any kind of raid. The area, Beadonpura and Raigarpura, is heavily congested, the kundan units (jewellery factories) belong to the rich and powerful traders who have huge showrooms in Karol Bagh's gold street.

We discovered that there was a institute for jewellery worksmanship. I decided to pose as a student of the institute and roped in a young reporter, Shivika Shankar, to join me. On our very first day, we were confronted with a heart-wrenching sight. We saw close to a dozen young boys, holed up in a less-than-10x10-feet room, sitting around a gas-burner, throwing high flame to melt gold and other metals.

There was no ventilation either. Their young faces shone in the fierce blaze of the furnace. A fan meant risking a fire. I happened to look at the fingertips of one boy, the residue of chemicals on his burnt fingers made him look like a character from a sci-fi film. With acid, potassium cyanide, nickel, the dank air was poisonous. We later learned that seven out of ten children here would end up contracting tuberculosis.

For a couple of thousand rupees for a month's work, they were being exposed to toxic fumes and debilitating chemicals. They ate, slept, worked in that low-ceiling dungeon, with a disturbing stench.

On the pretext of learning traditional jewellery design, we continued visiting them over the week and secretly recorded our conversations.Once we had it all, the BBA team and the Delhi Police swung into action. Policemen, who are used to such extreme cases, were also shocked to see the state of affairs in these hellholes.The Delhi government intervened to rehabilitate the children and take legal action. Kailash Satyarthi was happy with the work. He undertook this as a mission. We understood why. The joy of breaking another child labour ring. The assurance that these 100 street children can see the light of the day, and will be taken care of.

Resolve to “RESCUE ” the children grew even stronger

All that glitters is not gold. Kailash and his colleagues like Rakesh are real gold.

Today the new Nobel Peace Laureate from India is a man as

good as gold…

Kailash Satyarthi is a renouned Indian children’s right and education 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.

His work is recognized through various national and international honours and awards including the Nobel Peace Prize of 2014, which he shared with Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan.

Awards and honoursSatyarthi has been the subject of a number of

documentaries, television series, talk shows, advocacy and awareness films. Satyarthi has been awarded the following national and international honours:

2015: Honorary Doctorate by Amity University, Gurgaon

2014: Nobel Peace Prize2009: Defenders of Democracy Award (US)2008: Alfonso Comin International Award (Spain)2007: Gold medal of the Italian Senate (2007)2007: recognized in the list of "Heroes Acting to End

Modern Day Slavery" by the US State Department

2006: Freedom Award (US)2002: Wallenberg Medal, awarded by

the University of Michigan1999: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Award (Germany)1998: Golden Flag Award (Netherlands)1995: Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

Award (US)1995: The Trumpeter Award (US)1994: The Aachener International Peace Award

(Germany)1993: Elected Ashoka Fellow (US)

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