10 Things About The Indian Who Just Won The Nobel Peace Prize
Isha Jalan
If you haven't heard it already, India-based Kailash
Satyarthi and Pakistan-based Malala Yousafzai just got awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize for 2014 for their struggle against the suppression of children and young
people and for the right of all children to education by the Norwegian Nobel
Committee.
Everybody knows who Malala is, but do you have any
idea about the awesome things that Satyarthi has done?
1. He was born on January 11, 1954, in
Vidisha, located near Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
2. 60-year-old Satyarthi is the 8th Nobel
Laureate born in India.
3. He gave up a promising career as an
electrical engineer when he was all of 26 to dedicate his life to help kids
forced into slavery.
4. The founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan,
he has helped free around 80,000 children from the clutches of slavery and
child labour.
5. He also rescues women from enslavement
in filthy factories with deplorable conditions and sexual assault.
6. He created "Rugmark" which
certifies that carpets and rugs sold abroad are not made by child labourers.
The movement successfully spread awareness about child rights globally.
7.
He is the face of Global March Against Child Labor - a large group of as many
as 2000 social-purpose organizations and unions active in 140 countries.
8.
He heads the South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS) which rallies
national and international institutions and NGOs to bring pressure on
governments, manufacturers, and importers to stop exploiting illegal labor.
9.
Despite facing false charges and death threats for his work, he continued to
work for his vision. Two of his colleagues have even been murdered.
10.
His work has been appreciated and honoured earlier as well.
He received a grant from the Skoll
Foundation,
the Freedom Award,
the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award,
and
the US State Department's Heroes Acting to
End Modern-Day Slavery award.
His organisation Bachpan Bachao Andolan .
Isha Jalan
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