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Time to give back to India, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi tells Bay Area Indian community
Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi called for the large Indian community in the Bay Area to take the lead and contribute to the cause of eliminating child slavery in India, as well as around the world, during a local event on May 7. Referring to...
Why Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi Is Coming To Silicon Valley
Kailash Satyarthi, recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, will travel to Silicon Valley for a two-day visit beginning May 6, where he will engage with the Indian Diaspora and leading local and Indian-American community leaders from the region. Asked about the...
Why Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi Is Coming to Silicon Valley
Kailash Satyarthi, recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, will travel to Silicon Valley for a two-day visit beginning May 6, where he will engage with the Indian Diaspora and leading local and Indian-American community leaders from the region. Asked...
A Campaign Led by Young People Can Help Make the Difference in Stopping Slavery
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...
A Campaign Led by Young People Can Help Make the Difference in Stopping Slavery
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...
This is what the world needs to do to end child slavery
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...
