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Sustainable Development

Kailash Satyarthi: student engineer who saved 80,000 children from slavery

by The Daily Eye Team October 12 2014, 5:49 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 47 secs

Indian children?? rights activist hails Nobel peace prize as an honour to young people ??hose voice has never been heard??Kailash Satyarthi says his heroes are the children he has saved from slavery. The Nobel peace prize winner, 60, has been credited with helping to free about 80,000 children from bonded labour since he started his advocacy in the 1980s. He says the Nobel prize ??s an honour for my fellow Indians and for all those children whose voice has never been heard before in the country?? Described as a tireless campaigner for children?? rights, Satyarthi founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) ????ave the childhood movement?? roughly translated from the Hindi ??in 1980. The organisation has sought to educate the tens of thousands of children it has rescued, reintegrating them into society. Satyarthi has led rescue missions for children and others working in bonded labour in manufacturing industries, surviving several attacks on his life in the process.

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