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OPINION: Children must not fall off the 2030 Development Agenda
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...
17-Year-Old Is Fighting to End Child Marriage in India After Escaping It Herself
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...
Exploitative Child Labour In India’s Illegal Mica Mines Is Behind The Shimmer In Your Makeup
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 young...
The Mica Children: Fighting for Survival in India’s Deadly Mines
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...
Kailash Satyarthi plans to end child labor in his lifetime
(CNN)One night this summer in Dubai, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi was riding in a car pulling out from a screening of "The Price of Free," a documentary about his life, as a boy ran out in front of the line of cars, shouting his name. The 65-year-old...
Nobel winner Kailash Satyarthi’s new campaign: to protect children from online abuse
DUBAI: Clad in a neat white kurta, Kailash Satyarthi comes across as an unassuming man. But when the Nobel Peace Prize winner starts to speak, it is impossible not to be gripped by his story of a four-decade struggle against child labor and slavery.Earlier this month,...
