About Kailash Satyarthi

·        Electrical Engineer from Madhya Pradesh.

·        Head of Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) — the Save Childhood Movement

·        Freed 80,000 children from factories, brick-kilns, carpet making and other bonded labour jobs. Even sustained attacks from local mafia while doing that.

·        Helped in their education and rehabilitation.

·        Member of UNESCO group on “Education for all”.

·        Wants the world leaders to include child-slavery abolition in Post-

·        Has won Robert F. Kennedy International Human Rights Award (US) and several such civilian award in Spain, Italy and Europe.

·        Government of India never gave him any Padma award.

·        European Government nominated him for this Nobel Prize.

·        Only three people from India got Peace Nobel

Ø     1979: Mother Teresa

Ø     2007: RK Pachauri with Al Gore (climate change)

Ø     2014: Satyarthi.