Kailash Satyarthi

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Kailash Satyarthi (2013)

Kailash Satyarthi ( Hindi कैलाश सत्यार्थी ; born January 11, 1954 in Vidisha , Madhya Pradesh ) is an Indian activist on children's rights and education . On October 10, 2014, he and Malala Yousafzai were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Life

Satyarthi is engineer of Electrical Engineering with a diploma in high voltage engineering and was a lecturer in Bhopal . In 1980 he gave up his profession as a lecturer and devoted his work to the fight against the exploitation of children. In 1980 Satyarthi became general secretary of the Bonded Labor Liberation Front ( Bandhua Mukti Morcha , "Front Against Debt bondage "). This non-governmental organization combats the enslavement of children whose parents are over-indebted. In the same year Satyarthi founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA, English Save Childhood Movement , " Save Childhood Movement "). Other international organizations and movements in which Satyarthi was involved were the Global march against child labor ("Worldwide march against child labor ") and the Global Campaign for Education ("Worldwide campaign for education"). He was involved in organizations that promote the fair trade of products made without child labor, such as Goodweave and Rugmark .

He also justified his engagement against child exploitation and child labor by saying (against arguments that the children thereby contribute to family income and to the improvement of their own situation) that child exploitation is a central component in a vicious circle of ignorance, poverty and corruption.

It is estimated that the BBA has freed up to 80,000 children from slave labor and helped them reintegrate into more humane conditions since it was founded.

Nobel Prize

In 2014 Satyarthi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “his fight against the oppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”. He received the award together with the Pakistani child rights activist Malala Yousafzai .

Awards

Movie

  • Hubert Dubois: Children as work slaves . Arte 2012. 72 minutes.
  • Price of Free . Youtube 2018. 87 minutes.

Quotes

  • "Let's globalize compassion. [...] Let's democratize education." (from Kailash Satyarthi's speech during the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on December 10, 2014, Phoenix, live broadcast on December 10, 2014 from around 1 p.m.)

Web links

Commons : Kailash Satyarthi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014. October 11, 2014, accessed on October 11, 2014 (English, press release of the Norwegian Nobel Committee ).
  2. ↑ a b Kailash Satyarthi. Ashoka, accessed October 10, 2014 .
  3. ^ Human Rights Award 1999: Kailash Satyarthi, India. Friedrich Ebert Foundation, accessed on October 10, 2014 .
  4. ↑ a b Kailash Satyarthi: The activist who made child rights fashionable. Bihar Prabha, October 11, 2014, accessed October 11, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Kailash Satyarthi: Child labor perpetuates illiteracy, poverty and corruption. Deccan Herald, September 26, 2012, accessed October 11, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Kailash Satyarthi and the SACCS (South Asia). Aachen Peace Prize V., archived from the original on October 10, 2014 ; Retrieved October 10, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Satyarthi, Kailash
ALTERNATIVE NAMES कैलाश सत्यार्थी (Hindi)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian child rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Vidisha