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Full Name
  
Kailash Sharma

Website
  
KailashSatyarthi.net

Nationality
  
Indian

Name
  
Kailash Satyarthi


Occupation
  
Activist

Role
  
Activist

Religion
  
Hinduism

Spouse
  
Sumedha

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Born
  
11 January 1954 (age 70) (
1954-01-11
)
Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India

Alma mater
  
Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, Vidisha

Known for
  
Activism for children's rights and children's education

Education
  
Samrat Ashok Technological Institute

Organizations founded
  
Bachpan Bachao Andolan, GoodWeave International

Awards
  
Nobel Peace Prize, CNN-IBN Indian of the Year Outstanding Achievement

Parents
  
Ramprasad Sharma, Chironji

Similar People
  
Malala Yousafzai, Alfred Nobel, Azim Premji, Mahatma Gandhi

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Kailash Satyarthi (born 'Kailash Sharma'; 11 January 1954) is an Indian children's rights and education advocate and an activist against child labour. He founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (lit. Save the Childhood Movement) 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.

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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.

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Early life

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Originally named Kailash Sharma, Satyarthi was born on 11 January 1954 in the Vidisha district of central Indian state Madhya Pradesh.

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He attended Government Boys Higher Secondary School in town, and completed his degree in electrical engineering at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, Vidisha and a post-graduate degree in high-voltage engineering. He then joined a college in Bhopal as a lecturer for a few years.

Work

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In 1980, he gave up his career as an engineer and became secretary general for the Bonded Labor Liberation Front; he also founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement) that year. He has also been involved with the Global March Against Child Labor and its international advocacy body, the International Center on Child Labor and Education (ICCLE), which are worldwide coalitions of NGOs, teachers and trades unionists. 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 alongside ActionAid, Oxfam and Education International.

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In addition, he established GoodWeave International (formerly known as Rugmark) as the first voluntary labelling, monitoring and certification system of rugs manufactured without the use of child-labour in South Asia. This latter organisation operated a campaign in Europe and the United States in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the intent of raising consumer awareness of the issues relating to the accountability of global corporations with regard to socially responsible consumerism and trade. Satyarthi has highlighted child labor 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 had a role in linking the movement against child labour with efforts for achieving "Education for All". He has been a member of a UNESCO body established to examine this and has been on the board of the Fast Track Initiative (now known as 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. He is now reportedly working on bringing child labour and slavery into the post-2015 development agenda for the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals.

Satyarthi, along with Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right 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.

Personal life

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.

Awards and honors

Satyarthi has been the subject of a number of documentaries, television series, talk shows, advocacy and awareness films. In September 2017 India Times listed Satyarthi as one of the 11 Human Rights Activists Whose Life Mission Is To Provide Others With A Dignified Life Satyarthi has been awarded the following national and international honours:

  • 2017: P.C Chandra Puraskaar
  • 2015: Harvard's University Award "Humanitarian of the Year"
  • 2015: Honorary Doctorate by Amity University, Gurgaon
  • 2014: Nobel Peace Prize
  • 2009: 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 Michigan
  • 1999: 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)
  • Reception in India

    The discussion of illegalization of child labor was raised after Satyarthi received the Nobel Prize. According to some, it will make child labour go underground, which may cause reduced wages.

    Meet-up for Childhood Freedom at Lincoln Memorial

    On 16 June 2015 Satyarthi gave a clarion call to leaders and countries towards global elimination of child labour and slavery. Satyarthi was joined by a large number of child right groups and organisations at the Lincoln Memorial where he called for achieving freedom for the world's children from slavery, labour, abuse, trafficking and illiteracy.

    Books

  • Satyarthi, Kailash; Zutshi, Bupinder (2006). Globalisation, Development And Child Rights. New Delhi: Shipra Publications. ISBN 9788175412705. 
  • Satyarthi Kailash (2017) Will for Children. Prabhat Prakashan. ISBN 9789386300355
  • References

    Kailash Satyarthi Wikipedia