Kailash Satyarthi. He wanted to help people, especially the poor children who worked as bonded labourers and thus he quit his job.He started a journal called ‘The Struggle Shall Continue’ in 1980 in order to create awareness about the problem of child labour. http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/10/10/nobel-peace-prize-winner-kailash-satyarthi-a-savior-to-children/

Tonga’s ratification makes Convention 182 the only universally ratified convention in ILO’s history…Jul 16, 2020 KAILASH SATYARTHI, PRINCE ALI BIN HUSSEIN (photo credit: Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images) NEW DELHI/AMMAN – Taima’a al-Hariri, a 17-year-old Syrian refugee living in the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan, had been regularly attending school before the...COVID-19 will have a devastating impact on marginalized children. Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian child rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who formed the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA). SACCS has till date liberated several thousands of child labourers working in different industries.Kailash Satyarthi realized that the work did not end with the rescue; these children needed to be rehabilitated so that they could live a normal life. He studied to become an electrical engineer but this profession gave him no satisfaction. He gave up a lucrative career as an Electrical Engineer … He has been honored with several awards for his relentless humanitarian work, including the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 which he shares with the Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzay. Kailash Satyarthi (born 11 January 1954) is an Indian social reformer who campaigned against child labour 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.” https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2014/satyarthi/facts Child labour is a rampant problem in India where millions of young children are engaged in various forms of work instead of attending schools. The campaign launched in More than 1,200,000 marched for 35 days and led to the Criminal Law Amendment Act 2018 with a strict deterrent against child rape.

• Kailash father was Ramprasad Sharma who was a police constable and started living uneasy life after the death of his son Surendra in 1952, his mother name was Chironji. Tonga’s ratification makes Convention 182 the only universally ratified convention in ILO’s history.. for education and working to end child labor in his villagThe Kailash Satyarthi School, which now provides free education to children susceptible to child labor and other exploitation. His extended family also includes many of the former child labourers that his organizations have rescued.His works have been covered by several television and radio documentaries and he has been featured in many prominent magazines like ‘Reader’s Digest’, The Time’, ‘Washington Post’, and ‘New York Times’.On January 8, 2015, Kailash Satyarthi dedicated his Nobel Peace Prize medal to the nation (India).
When he learned of a factory in which children were forcibly kept and made to work, he decided it was time to take action.He joined hands with a group of like-minded people and conducted raids on factories from where he rescued several children and their parents who were held as bonded labourers. BIOGRAPHY. Satyarthi has argued that child labour perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and population growth.Satyarthi has been involved with the Global March Against Child Labor and its international advocacy body, the International Center on Child Labor and Education (ICCLE) – a global coalition of NGOs, teachers and trades unionists, and also the Global Campaign for Education.Satyarthi is also credited with establishing Goodweave as the first voluntary labelling, monitoring and certification system of rugs manufactured without the use of child-labour in South Asia.He has helped enactment and adoption of national and international legislations, treaties and conventions as well as the constitutional amendment on child labour and education.Kailash, who was born in Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh, has a degree in electrical engineering and a post-graduate diploma in high-voltage engineering.After teaching engineering in a college in Bhopal for a few years, Kailash decided to work for social change following his experiences as a student who saw the lot of less priovilegded from close quarters.