Kailash Satyarthi & Malala wins Nobel Peace Prize

Kailash Satyarthi & Malala received Nobel Prize on 10th Dec. 2014 Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi have received the Nobel Peace Prize awards jointly with Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai. Satyarthi, 60, is recognized for a 35-year battle to free thousands of children from virtual slave labour while 17-year-old Malala became a global icon after she was shot and nearly killed by the Taliban for insisting that girls had a right to an education. Malala Yousafzai has already been honored with a host of awards, standing ovations and plaudits everywhere from the United Nations to Buckingham Palace. About Kailash Satyarthi Kailash Satyarthi  born on January 11, 1954, is a human rights activist from India who has been at the forefront of the global movement to end child slavery and exploitative child labor since 1980 when he gave up a lucrative career as an Electrical Engineer for initiating crusade against Child Servitude. As a grassroots activist, he has led the rescue of over 78,500 child slaves and developed a successful model for their education and rehabilitation. As a worldwide campaigner, he has been the architect of the single largest civil society network for the most exploited children, the Global March Against Child Labor,which is a worldwide coalition of NGOs, Teachers' Union and Trade Unions. As an analytical thinker, he made the issue of child labor a human rights issue, not a welfare matter or a charitable cause. He has established that child labor is responsible for the perpetuation of poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population explosion and many other social evils. He has also played an important role in linking the fight against child labor with the efforts for achieving 'Education for All'. Mr. Kailash Satyarthi is a member of a High Level Group formed by UNESCO on Education for All comprising of select Presidents, Prime Ministers and UN Agency Heads. As one of the rare civil society leaders he has addressed the United Nations General Assembly, International Labour Conference, UN Human Rights Commission, UNESCO, etc and has been invited to several Parliamentary Hearings and Committees in USA, Germany and UK in the recent past.