Kailash satyarthi biography in english
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Kailash Satyarthi
Indian Social Campaigner
Kailash Satyarthi (born 11 January 1954) is an Indian social reformer who campaigned against child labor in India and advocated the universal right to education.
In 2014, he was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Malala Yousafzai, "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education." He is the founder of multiple social activist organizations, including Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Global March Against Child Labour, Global Campaign for Education, Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation, and Bal Ashram Trust.
Kailash Satyarthi and his team at Bachpan Bachao Andolan have liberated more than 1,30,000[4] children in India from child labour, slavery and trafficking. In 1998, Satyarthi conceived and led the Global March against Child Labour,[5] an 80,000 km (ca. 49,710 mi)-long march across 103 countries to put forth a global
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Mr Satyarthi is the architect of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), a civil society movement working to end the global education crisis and ensuring that states deliver the right to a free and quality public education for every child.
He successfully spearheaded a countrywide movement to make education a Constitutional Provision which subsequently paved way for the Right To Education (RTE) in 2009 in India.
Since then he has been instrumental in promoting CSR initiatives in garment, mica mining, cocoa farming, sporting goods sector among others.
Mr. Kailash Satyarthi has addressed the United Nations’ General Assembly, International Labour Conference, UN Human Rights Commission, UNESCO and several Parliamentary Hearings and Committees in the US, Germany, UK, Italy, Brazil, Panama, Nepal, Spain, Chile to name a few.
In 2014, Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his endeavour to “struggle against the suppression of children and young people, and for their r
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Kailash Satyarthi was born in 1954 in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. When he started school at the age of 5, he noticed a cobbler and his ung son working nearby. He was deeply affected bygd the fact that many children were unable to be educated because their families couldn’t afford it. Challenging the idea that some children are “born to work” would become the foundation of his activism.
When Satyarthi was only 11 years old, he took his first step toward ansträngande to man a difference in his community. At the time, elementary education in India was not free, so he organized a soccer club with several friends and used the membership dues to pay the tuition of disadvantaged children. He later discovered that many of the students he’d helped had dropped out because they couldn’t afford books. Satyarthi went from house to house asking for parents to donate their children’s used books so that he could give them to students in need for the next school year.
As an adult, Satyarthi ear