1. Kailash Satyarthi was born on 11 January 1954 and is an Indian social reformer who campaigned against child labor in India and advocated the universal right to education.
24 Facts About Kailash Satyarthi
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Kailash Satyarthi has served on the board and committee of several international organizations including the Center for Victims of Torture, the International Labour Rights Fund, and the Cocoa Initiative.
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Kailash Satyarthi was among Fortune magazine's "World's Greatest Leaders" in 2015 and featured in LinkedIn's Power Profiles List in 2017 and 2018.
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Kailash Satyarthi dropped his last name Sharma and took Satyarthi after his marriage, due to the influence of the reformist Arya Samaj movement.
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Kailash Satyarthi is the youngest among four brothers and a sister in his family.
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Kailash Satyarthi's father Ramprasad Sharma was a retired police head constable and his mother Chironjibai was an uneducated housewife with high morals.
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Kailash Satyarthi was raised in a locality where Hindus and Muslims lived with each other.
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Kailash Satyarthi was significantly affected by the lack of school access for all children and his experiences with poverty in his youth.
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Kailash Satyarthi made efforts when he was young to try to change these inequalities due to the circumstances of their birth.
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Kailash Satyarthi attended Government Boys Higher Secondary School in Vidisha, and completed an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute in Vidisha then affiliated to the University of Bhopal, and a post-graduate degree in high-voltage engineering.
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Kailash Satyarthi joined his college as a lecturer for a few years.
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In 1980, Kailash Satyarthi gave up his career as an electrical engineer and then founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan.
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Kailash Satyarthi has served as the President of the Global Campaign for Education from its inception in 1999 to 2011.
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In 1998, Kailash Satyarthi conceived and led the Global March against Child Labour traveling across 103 countries covering 80,000 km to demand an International Law on Worst Forms of Child Labour.
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Kailash Satyarthi established GoodWeave International as the first voluntary labelling, monitoring and certification system of rugs manufactured without the use of child-labour in South Asia.
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Kailash Satyarthi has highlighted child labour as a human rights issue as well as a welfare matter and charitable cause.
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Kailash Satyarthi has argued that it perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems, his claims have been supported by several studies.
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Kailash Satyarthi has had a role in linking the movement against child labour with efforts for achieving "Education for All".
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Kailash Satyarthi has been a member of a UNESCO body and has been on the board of the Fast Track Initiative.
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Kailash Satyarthi had served on the board and committee of several international organisations including the Center for Victims of Torture, the International Labor Rights Fund, and the International Cocoa Foundation.
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Kailash Satyarthi brought child labour and slavery into the post-2015 development agenda for the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals.
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Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 "for the struggle against the suppression of children and young people and the right of all children to education".
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Kailash Satyarthi's family includes his wife, a son, daughter-in-law, a grandson, daughter and a son-in-law.
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Kailash Satyarthi has been the subject of documentary, television series, talk shows, advocacy and awareness films.