Kailash Satyarthi: A Relentless Crusader Of Child Rights
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With a dream to uproot social evils from the lives of innocent children, Aim: To see children smiling
Pursuing his simple dream to see kids across the country smiling, Kailash Satyarthi formed Bachpan Bachao Andolan in 1980, an organisation of like minded people working together to wipe out
Kailash feels strongly for kids who are forced into the worst kinds of abusive work. While describing children’s plight, he once told media that "If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.”
Worry: Child trafficking growing at a
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Vision: Calls for strong laws on child trafficking
Satyarthi feels that India doesn’t have strong laws on child trafficking. During one of his interviews to leading media house, he had said, “We have a law on immoral trafficking and that is basically for adult trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation. Therefore, it is important for the government to form some tough laws to tackle this menace.”
Wish: If
Today, it was a great day for Satyarthi to get worldwide recognition, but the man made a great statement on the stage that must have touched every Indian’s heart. It touched ours’ at least. After receiving the award, he had said, "I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured"
(Image: kailashsatyarthi.net)
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