by Staff Reporter | Oct 12, 2019 | Mumbai
Mumbai: Over 70,000 people initiated a ‘Girls March to School’ on Friday in order to create awareness about the need for free and compulsory education for girls till the age of 18. The initiative organised by Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation (KSCF) along with...
by Kailash Satyarthi | Oct 10, 2019 | Thomson Reuters Foundation News
I had kept a vacant chair in the front row of the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony at Oslo in 2014. That chair represented millions of children who are languishing in slavery, exploitation and violence in our modern world. My Nobel Peace Prize, announced exactly five years...
by Rachel DeSantis | Oct 2, 2019 | People
For 17-year-old Payal Jangid, her fight against child marriage in her native India is personal. The teen — who last week was recognized at the Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Awards with the Changemaker Award — has been a tireless force of change when it comes to ending...
by Shweta Sengar | Aug 28, 2019 | Indian Times
For thousands of children who work as labours, picking dhibra (mica waste) in the vast lands of Bihar and Jharkhand is a routine affair. There’s almost no shot at education because the priority is to feed the family. These mines are a death trap but children as...
by Marius Münstermann, Christian Werner | Apr 9, 2019 | SPIGEL International
Badku Marandi was six-years-old the first time he crept into the tunnels that had been dug deep into the hard earth. During the dry months before the monsoon season begins, there is only one source of income for the poor here in the state of Jharkhand in India’s...
