Kailash Satyarthi Native name कैलाश सत्यार्थी Born 11 January 1954 (age 60) Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh , India Nationa lity Indian Occupa tion Activist for childrens rights, Activist for children education Known for Activism Religio n Hinduism Awards Nobel Peace Prize Kailash Satyarthi ( Hindi: कैलाश सत्यार्थी) (born 11 January 1954) is an Indian childrens rights activist and a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate[1] . He has been active in the Indian movement against child labour since the 1990s. So far his organization, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, has freed over 80,000 children from various forms of servitude and helped in successful re-integration, rehabilitation and education. [2] Together with Malala Yousafzai [3] , he was announced as the winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize .[4] Work Satyarthi campaigned worldwide on social issues involving children. In 1980 he became secretary general for Bonded Labour Liberation Front / Bachpan Bachao Andolan.[5] He has also been involved with the Global March Against Child Labor[6] and its international advocacy body, the International Center on Child Labor and Education (ICCLE), [7] which are worldwide coalitions of NGOs, teachers and trades unionists, and also the Global Campaign for Education. [8][9] In addition, he established Rugmark (now known as Goodweave) as the first voluntary labelling, monitoring and certification system of rugs manufactured without the use of child-labour in South Asia. [10] This latter organisation operated a campaign in Europe and the USA 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.[11] . 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, [12] and his claims have been supported by several studies. [citation needed] He has also had a role in linking the movement against child labour with efforts for achieving Education for All. [13] 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 ). [14] 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 Nations Millenium Development Goals. [15] Satyarthi, alongwith Pakistani girl activist Malala Yousufzai, 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. [16] Satyarthi is the seventh Nobel Prize winner for India and only the second Indian winner of the Nobel Peace Prize after Mother Teresa in 1979.
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