Kailash SATYARTHI

Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, a social reformer par excellence, stands as one of the tallest leaders and the loudest voice for the oppressed and voiceless. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for his ‘struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.’ A global thought leader and the founder of the Satyarthi Movement for Global Compassion, his dedication to social reforms is unparalleled. Through his organisation, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Mr. Satyarthi has liberated more than 130,000 children from child labour, slavery, trafficking, and other forms of exploitation and developed a successful model for their education, rehabilitation, and reintegration into mainstream society. The Global March Against Child Labour, which he led, galvanized support in 103 countries, resulting in the adoption of ILO Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour.. He is also the founding president of the Global Campaign for Education, an exemplary civil society movement working to end the global education crisis. He successfully spearheaded a countrywide movement to make education a Constitutional Provision which subsequently paved the way for the Right to Free and Compulsory Education in India in 2009. Mr Satyarthi is credited for establishing GoodWeave International (previously known as Rugmark), a first-of-its-kind certification and social labelling mechanism for child labour-free carpets in South Asia. In 2016, Mr Satyarthi launched Laureates and Leaders for Children, a platform bringing together Nobel Laureates and leaders committed to working together for the world’s most vulnerable children. Mr Satyarthi has been at the forefront of demanding social protection for vulnerable children living in African nations and other low-income countries. Mr Satyarthi has received several prestigious awards and his life and mission embody the profound impact of compassion, illustrating its transformative power to drive meaningful change. He strongly believes that compassion is not a weak emotion but one that provides endless energy and drive to take compassionate action to alleviate others' suffering as if it were one's own. Through his latest movement, Satyarthi Movement for Global Compassion, Mr. Satyarthi aims to globalise compassion to promote a more just, peaceful and sustainable world.

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