by Gordon Brown | Apr 18, 2016 | Huffington Post, The Huffington Post
We have seen how thousands of Nepalese girls, forced onto the streets after the Nepal earthquake, have been trafficked into India and even sold into the United Kingdom. Gross abuses, including rape, have been reported in Iraq. We have heard, at first hand, how Syrian...
by Gordon Brown and Kailash Satyarthi | Apr 18, 2016 | The Huffington Post
The last year has seen such blatant violations of children’s rights that instead of being shocked the international community has sadly begun to accept these abuses as normal. We have seen how thousands of Nepalese girls, forced onto the streets after the Nepal...
by Kailash Satyarthi | Jan 22, 2016 | World Economic Forum
It is a blot on the face of humanity that we have yet to eradicate slavery – of children, no less. Not only does child slavery persist; the number of child slaves, 5.5 million, has remained constant in the last two decades. They are bought and sold like animals,...
by UN Foundation | Oct 26, 2015 | project-syndicate.org
A few weeks ago, I walked outside during a break between sessions at the Social Good Summit in New York City, and instantly recognized a face in the crowd. It was 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi, who received the joint prize with girls’ education...
by Aditi Malhotra | Oct 26, 2015 | Harvard
Addressing what he called the “world’s current and future top thought leaders, researchers and entrepreneurs,” Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi urged Harvard students to take action in defense of abused and enslaved children around the world. “Even a small act can...
