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Introduction
editKailash Satyarthi is a children's rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate from India.
Early life
editSatyarthi was born in Vidisha, a small town in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, on 11 January 1954. He grew in a locality (mohalla) which had Hindus and Muslims living amicably with each other, with a Hindu temple on one side and a Masjid on the other.[1]
School education
editAs a four-year old toddler, he first learnt to read Urdu from the maulvi at the neighboring mosque and subsequently learnt Hindi and English in school. He attended Government Boys Higher Secondary School in Vidisha.[1]
Graduation
editHe graduated with a degree in electrical engineering[2] at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute in Vidisha,[3] and a post-graduate degree in high-voltage engineering. He then joined a college in Bhopal as a lecturer for a few years.[4]
Work
editIn 1980, Sathyarthi gave up his career as an electrical engineer and founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement) that year.[5]
Global March Against Child Labor
editIn 1998 Satyarthi conceived and led the Global March against Child Labour[6] traversing across 103 countries covering 80,000 km with a demand for an International Law on Worst Forms of Child Labour. This eventually led to the adoption of ILO Convention number 182 on worst forms of child labour.[7]
GoodWeave International
editIn 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.[8]
Global Campaign for Education
editHe 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.[9]
KSCF
editThe Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation (KSCF), was established in 2004 by Satyarthi. It is a grassroots organisation that to spread awareness about child issues and be a policy advocate.[10]
UNESCO
editKailash Satyarthi has been a member of a UNESCO body established with the goal of providing "Education for All" and has been on the board of the Fast Track Initiative (now known as the Global Partnership for Education).[11]
UN SDGs
editHe brought child labour and slavery into the post-2015 development agenda for the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals.[12]
Nobel Prize
editSatyarthi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 "for the struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".[13] Satyarthi is the first natural born Indian Nobel Peace Laureate.[14]
Bharat Yatra
editSatyarthi launched Bharat Yatra in Kanyakumari on 11 September 2017 to spread awareness about child trafficking and sexual abuse.[15] The Yatra also resulted in the Anti-Human Trafficking Bill being passed by the 16th Lok Sabha.[15]
Awards and honours
editApart from the Nobel Prize, some of the notable awards received by Satyarthi include
Ashoka Fellow
editAshoka Fellowship in 1993.[16]
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award
editRobert F Kennedy Human Rights Award by the United States in 1995.[17]
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
editFriedrich Ebert Stiftung Award in 1999.[18]
Wallenberg Medal
editWallenberg Medal by the University of Michigan in 2002.[19]
References
edit- ^ a b Regunathan, Sudhamahi (30 April 2015). "How he got his name". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
- ^ "Kailash Satyarthi: A profile". Business Standard. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ Trivedi, Vivek (11 October 2014). "Kailash Satyarthi's hometown Vidisha celebrates Nobel win". News18.com. Noida, Uttar Pradesh: Network18. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
He was born and brought up in Chhoti Haweli in Andar Quila area of the town. […] locals were seen drawing affiliation to institutions linked to Satyarhti including his schools – Toppura Primary School, Pedi school and Government Boys Higher Secondary School and Samrat Ashok Technological Institute (SATI) from where Satyarthi graduated in Electrical Engineering and later taught there for two years before embarking his journey to serve humanity.
- ^ Chonghaile, Clar (10 October 2014). "Kailash Satyarthi: student engineer who saved 80,000 children from slavery". theguardian.com. London: Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ "Angaben auf der Seite des Menschenrechtspreises der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung". Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ "How we started | Global March Against Child Labour". www.globalmarch.org. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
- ^ "Trust Women – Kailash Satyarthi". Archived from the original on 10 October 2014.
- ^ "Who is India's Kailash Satyarthi, the other Nobel Peace Prize winner?". Rama Lakshmi. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ "The Role of Civil Society in the Dakar World Education Forum". Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ "The Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation". satyarthi.org.in. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
- ^ Singh, Yoshita (27 March 2015). "Modi, Kailash Satyarthi among Fortune's list of world's greatest leaders". livemint.com. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
- ^ "Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi calls for child-related SDGs at UN summit". DNA India.
- ^ "Kailash Satyarthi – Facts". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ Singh, Yoshita (27 March 2015). "Modi, Kailash Satyarthi among Fortune's list of world's greatest leaders". livemint.com. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Bharat Yatra". bharatyatra.online. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
- ^ "Fellows: Kailash Satyarthi". Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. 1993. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- ^ "Human Rights Award of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung". fes.de.
- ^ "Human Rights Award of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung". fes.de.
- ^ "Medal Recipients – Wallenberg Legacy, University of Michigan". Univ. of Michigan.