Kailash Satyarthi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kailash Satyarthi
Occupation	Civil Rights Leader
Date Of Birth	Jan 11, 1954(1954-01-11)
Age	70
Birthplace	Vidisha
Country	India
Birth City	Madhya Pradesh
Horoscope	Capricorn

Kailash Satyarthi Biography

Kailash Satyarthi is one of the most popular and richest Civil Rights Leader who was born on January 11, 1954 in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India. The most well-known for her work as the founder of Bachpan Bachao andolan (English traduced as Save the Childhood Movement) The Nobel Peace Prize winner fought to safeguard tens of thousands of children around the world from being forced to work for hours and hours in hazardous working conditions.

He as well as Pakistani Human Rights militant He and Pakistani human rights activist Malala Yousafzai shared the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. Nobel Peace Prize.

He established GoodWeave International (formerly known as Rugmark) as the first voluntary labelling, monitoring and certification system of rugs manufactured without the use of child-labour in South Asia. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he focused its campaigns on raising consumer awareness on issues relating to the accountability of global corporations regarding socially responsible consumerism, trade and supply chains. Satyarthi has highlighted child labour as a human rights issue as well as a welfare matter and charitable cause. He has argued that it perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems, his claims have been supported by several studies. He has had a role in linking the movement against child labour with efforts for achieving “Education for All”. Satyarthi has been a member of a UNESCO body and has been on the board of the Fast Track Initiative (now known as the Global Partnership for Education). Satyarthi had served on the board and committee of several international organisations including the Center for Victims of Torture (USA), the International Labor Rights Fund (USA), and the International Cocoa Foundation. He brought child labour and slavery into the post-2015 development agenda for the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

In 1980, Sathyarthi gave up his career as an electrical engineer and founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement). He conceived and led the Global March Against Child Labor and its international advocacy body, the International Center on Child Labor and Education (ICCLE), which are worldwide coalitions of NGOs, teachers and trades unionists. He has served as the President of the Global Campaign for Education from its inception in 1999 to

2011. Sathyarthi is one of its four founders alongside ActionAid, Oxfam and Education International.

He was born in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India Then he relocated to New Delhi with his wife and two children.

Kailash Satyarthi Net Worth

Kailash Satyarthi is one of the richest Civil Rights Leader from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kailash Satyarthi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After obtaining the electrical engineer degree at the Indian Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, the student pursued a profession as an educator. In the beginning of the 1980s, he started his activism as an activist in the Bonded Labor Liberation Front.

In the late 1990s In the mid-1990s, he was awarded in the mid-1990s, he was awarded Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. He later founded the Global Campaign for Education and was the first president.

Kailash Satyarthi (born 11 January 1954) is an Indian social reformer who campaigned against child labour in India and advocated the universal right to education. In 2014, he was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Malala Yousafzai, “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.” He is the founder of multiple social activist organizations, including Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Global March Against Child Labour, Global Campaign for Education and Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation.

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Satyarthi has been the subject of documentaries, television series, talk shows, advocacy and awareness films. In September 2017 India Times listed Satyarthi as one of the 11 Human Rights Activists Whose Life Mission Is To Provide Others with a Dignified Life Satyarthi has been awarded the following honours:

Facts & Trivia

Kailash Ranked on the list of most popular Civil Rights Leader. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Kailash Satyarthi celebrates birthday on January 11 of every year.

More than 1,200,000 marched for 35 days and led to the Criminal Law Amendment Act 2018 with a strict deterrent against child rape. The Yatra resulted in the Anti-Human Trafficking Bill being passed by the 16th Lok Sabha.

Who got Nobel Peace Prize in India?

Three of the laureates were citizens of the Republic of India ( Mother Teresa, Sen, and Satyarthi ) and four were Indian by birth (Khorana, Chandrasekhar, Ramakrishnan, and Banerjee) but subsequently non-citizens of India.

Why Kailash Satyarthi is famous?

Kailash founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement) in 1980 as the first people’s movement for social justice, equity, education and peace for all children in India. He braved all odds to uphold the rights of marginalised and victimised children, not only in India but across the world.

Why did Kailash Satyarthi get Nobel Prize?

In 2014 Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in recognition of their efforts on behalf of children’s rights.

Who is the youngest Nobel?

In 2013, TIME magazine named Malala one of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World.” On her 16th birthday she spoke in the United Nations. In her speech Malala called for the equal right to education for girls all over the world, and became a symbol of this cause.

Who has won 3 Nobel Prizes?

Since the International Committee of the Red Cross has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize three times (in 1917, 1944 and 1963), and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize two times (in 1954 and 1981), there are 25 individual organizations which have been …