Kailash Satyarthi
Kailash Satyarthi
Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian children's rights and education advocate and an activist against child labour. He founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolanin 1980 and has acted to protect the rights of more than 83,000 children from 144 countries. It is largely because of Satyarthi's work and activism that the International Labour Organization adopted Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child labour, which is now a principal guideline for governments around the world...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth11 January 1954
CountryIndia
The single aim of my life is that every child is: free to be a child, free to grow and develop, free to eat, sleep, see daylight, free to laugh and cry, free to play, free to learn, free to go to school, and above all, free to dream.
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.
I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.