Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian children's rights activist who won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. He founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan in 1980 to protect children's rights and has rescued over 80,000 children from child labor. Satyarthi has worked internationally to highlight child labor as a human rights issue and established organizations to end it. He continues advocating and calling on global leaders to achieve freedom for children from slavery, labor, abuse, and illiteracy.

2. Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel
Peace Prize
Indian children's right activist Kailash Satyarthi
at his office in New Delhi October 10, 2014

3. Born : 11 January 1954 (age 61)
Vidisha, Madhya Bharat, India - now Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India
Nationality : Indian
Education: Engineering
Occupation : Activist for children's rights and children's education
Known for : Activism
Religion : Hindu

4. In 1980, he gave up his career as a teacher and became
secretary general for the Bonded Labor Liberation Front;
he also founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the
Childhood Movement) that year.
He has also been involved with the Global March Against
Child Labor and its international advocacy body, the
International Center on Child Labor and Education
(ICCLE),which are worldwide coalitions of NGOs,
teachers and trades unionists.

5. He 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.
In addition, he established Good Weave
International as the first voluntary labeling,
monitoring and certification system of rugs
manufactured without the use of child-labor in
South Asia.
Satyarthi has highlighted child labor as a human
rights issue as well as a welfare matter and
charitable cause.

6. Awards
• Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award
• Medal of the Italian Senate
• Alfonso Coming International Award
• International Peace Prize, Germany
• Defenders of Democracy Award
• 2014 Nobel Peace Prize

7. Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian children's rights activist and a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
He founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan in 1980 and has acted to protect the rights of 80,000 children.

8. Indian children's right activist Kailash Satyarthi gestures as he speaks with the media at his
office in New Delhi October 10, 2014.
Satyarthi and Pakistani teenager Malala won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

9. Nobel peace prize winners: award is a
boost for children’s rights worldwide
The winners of the Nobel peace prize,
Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian children’s rights
advocate, said the award represented a

10. On June 16, 2015 Satyarthi gave a clarion call to
leaders and countries towards global elimination of
child labor and slavery.
• Satyarthi was joined by a large number of child
right groups and organizations at the Lincoln
Memorial where he called for achieving freedom
for the world's children from slavery , labor , abuse
, trafficking and illiteracy.

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