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Home / News / Entertainment News / Kailash Satyarthi receives prestigious Harvard award
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    Kailash Satyarthi receives prestigious Harvard award

    Shiladitya Ray
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    Last updated on Oct 17, 2015, 03:51 pm
    Kailash Satyarthi receives prestigious Harvard award
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  • Harvard University awarded the prestigious "Humanitarian of the Year" award to children's rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi, for his contributions towards abolition of child slavery and in the field of child rights.

    Satyarthi recently succeeded in getting welfare related and child protection clauses included in the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, aiming to end trafficking, slavery and violence.

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    Kailash Satyarthi and children's rights Rugmark and Full Stop Achievements in the field of children's rights Awards received by Satyarthi for his work Previous Humanitarian of the Year winners Kailash Satyarthi receives prestigious Harvard award Always the first
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    Kailash Satyarthi and children's rights

    Kailash Satyarthi and children's rights
  • Born in 1954, Satyarthi left his career as a lecturer to become Secretary-General of the NGO Bonded Labour Liberation Front in 1980, and went on to start the Bachpan Bacho Andolan (Save Childhood Movement) in the same year.

    In 1998, Satyarthi organised the Global March Against Child Labour across 103 countries.

    He was also President of the Global Campaign for Education from 1999-2011.

  • Campaigns

    Rugmark and Full Stop

    Rugmark and Full Stop
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  • In 1994, Kailash Satyarthi founded Rugmark- a certification programme dedicated to ending child labour in the rug-making industry.

    Companies which pass inspection are allowed to attach a logo/mark certifying that their product was made sans child labour.

    In September 2015, Satyarthi launched Full Stop- a social media campaign against child sexual abuse, aimed to empower and educate survivors, victims and their parents.

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    Achievements in the field of children's rights

  • Satyarthi is credited with freeing over 83,000 children across 144 countries. He is largely responsible for the adoption of Convention No.182 by the International Labour Organisation which has now become a principal guideline for governments worldwide.

  • Awards

    Awards received by Satyarthi for his work

    Awards received by Satyarthi for his work
  • Satyarthi has received several prestigious awards for his contribution towards children's rights.

    The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award (US) in 1995, the Golden Flag Award (Netherlands) in 1998, Freedom Award (US) in 2006, Gold medal of the Italian Senate in 2007, Defenders of Democracy Award (US) in 2009, are some among the many.

    In 2014, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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    Previous Humanitarian of the Year winners

  • Previous winners of Harvard's "Humanitarian of the Year" include heavyweights like Martin Luther King Sr., Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Ban Ki-moon; Nobel laureates like John Hume and Jose Ramos-Horta; and Thorbjorn Jagland, head of the Nobel Peace Prize committee.

  • 17 Oct 2015

    Kailash Satyarthi receives prestigious Harvard award

    Kailash Satyarthi receives prestigious Harvard award
    Credits:
  • Harvard University awarded the prestigious "Humanitarian of the Year" award to children's rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi, for his contributions towards abolition of child slavery and in the field of child rights.

    Satyarthi recently succeeded in getting welfare related and child protection clauses included in the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, aiming to end trafficking, slavery and violence.

  • Do you know?

    Always the first

  • Kailash Satyarthi became the first Indian to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, when he shared the award with Pakistani child activist Malala Yousafzai. He is also the first Indian to win Harvard's "Humanitarian of the Year".

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