Last Updated: 05 Jan, 2024 | Views: 770
Age: 70
Profession: Social Worker
Other Profession(s): Activist, Electrical Engineer
Famous For: Activism For Children's Rights And Children's Education.
Higher Education: Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Engineering, Ph.D
About (profile/biography)
Kailash Satyarthi is a human rights campaigner from India who has been at the vanguard of the global manoeuvre to end child subjugation and enslavement. When he gave up a remunerative career as an electrical engineer to start a campaign opposite to child serfdom, he was the founder of numerous organizations, such as Bachpan Bachao Andolan (English: Save child Movement) and many more. Kailash Satyarthi commenced his career as a professor. Recently, he wrote the book Covid19: a crisis of civilization or solution.
Career
In 1999: Satyarthi founded the Global Crusade for Education and became the president of this organization.
In 1999: Kailash Satyarthi collaborated with different NGOs as a fellowship that was individually working in different areas, such as Action Aid, Education International, etc.
In 2004: Kailash entrenched a corporation, The Kailash Satyarthi children’s Foundation (KSCF).
In 2017: Satyarthi launched a movement Bharat Yatra to spread consciousness about child trafficking and sexually abusing.
In 2018: Kailash Satyarthi wrote the book published by Prabhat Publication.
Awards and Achievement
In 1995: Kailash Satyarthi received Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.
In 2014: He got the honour of receiving the Nobel peace prize with Malala Yusufzai.
Unknown Facts
In 1998, Satyarthi devised and led the Global March opposite Child Labour, wandering 103 countries capping 80,000 km to demand an International Law on Worst Forms of Child Labour.
Satyarthi is the first Indian who glorify at the Nobel Peace Prize.
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