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Introduction
Kailash Satyarthi is a children's rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate from India.

Early life
Satyarthi was born in Vidisha, a small town in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, on 11 January 1954. He grew in a locality (mohalla) which had Hindus and Muslims living amicably with each other, with a Hindu temple on one side and a Masjid on the other.

School education
As a four-year old toddler, he first learnt to read Urdu from the maulvi at the neighboring mosque and subsequently learnt Hindi and English in school. He attended Government Boys Higher Secondary School in Vidisha.

Graduation
He graduated with a degree in electrical engineering at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute in Vidisha, and a post-graduate degree in high-voltage engineering. He then joined a college in Bhopal as a lecturer for a few years.



Work
In 1980, Sathyarthi gave up his career as an electrical engineer and founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement) that year.

Global March Against Child Labor
In 1998 Satyarthi conceived and led the Global March against Child Labour traversing across 103 countries covering 80,000 km with a demand for an International Law on Worst Forms of Child Labour. This eventually led to the adoption of ILO Convention number 182 on worst forms of child labour.



GoodWeave International
In addition, 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.



Global Campaign for Education
He has also served as the President of the Global Campaign for Education, from its inception in 1999 to 2011, having been one of its four founders alongside ActionAid, Oxfam and Education International.



KSCF
The Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation (KSCF), was established in 2004 by Satyarthi. It is a grassroots organisation that to spread awareness about child issues and be a policy advocate.



UNESCO
Kailash Satyarthi has been a member of a UNESCO body established with the goal of providing "Education for All" and has been on the board of the Fast Track Initiative (now known as the Global Partnership for Education).



UN SDGs
He brought child labour and slavery into the post-2015 development agenda for the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals.



Nobel Prize
Satyarthi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 "for the struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education". Satyarthi is the first natural born Indian Nobel Peace Laureate.



Bharat Yatra
Satyarthi launched Bharat Yatra in Kanyakumari on 11 September 2017 to spread awareness about child trafficking and sexual abuse. The Yatra also resulted in the Anti-Human Trafficking Bill being passed by the 16th Lok Sabha.



Awards and honours
Apart from the Nobel Prize, some of the notable awards received by Satyarthi include

Ashoka Fellow
Ashoka Fellowship in 1993.

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award
Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award by the United States in 1995.

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Award in 1999.

Wallenberg Medal
Wallenberg Medal by the University of Michigan in 2002.