Kailash Satyarthi

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Kailash Satyarthi: Biography at a Glance

  • Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 alongside Malala Yousafzai
  • Has led the global fight against child slavery for more than three decades
  • Founded the grassroots nonprofit Bachpan Bachao Andolan (“Save Childhood Movement”), which has rescued more than 80,000 Indian children from various forms of exploitation, from child labor to trafficking
  • Organized the Global March Against Child Labor to raise awareness and free millions of children
  • Named one of “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders" by Fortune magazine

Biography

Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi has been leading the global fight against child slavery for over three decades. As the founder of a grassroots nonprofit, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save Childhood Movement, he has rescued more than 80,000 Indian children to date from various forms of exploitation from child labor to child trafficking.

Kailash’s work has involved organizing almost weekly raid, rescue and recovery missions on workplaces that employ and enslave children. Since 2001, Satyarthi’s has risked his own life to rescue these children and has convinced families in more than 300 Indian villages to avoid sending their children to work, and instead putting them in school.

Satyarthi’s has also managed to grab and retain the world’s attention on the problem. He organized the Global March Against Child Labor in the 1990s to raise awareness and free millions of children shackled in various forms of modern slavery. His activism was also instrumental in the adoption of Convention No. 182 by the International Labour Organization, a statue that's become a guideline for many governments on child labor.

In 2014, he and Malala Yousafzai were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.”

Most recently, Satyarthi was named to Fortune's list of "The World's 50 Greatest Leaders."

The event went really well and Kailash’s speech played a big role in the success. His enthusiasm was inspiring and he was very easy to work with. The ASN Bank is very happy he was able to attend and the directors of the bank have become big fans of his. He is a very special person indeed.

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