by Shraysi Tandon | Jun 19, 2015 | The Washington Post
The story begins like a nightmarish fairy tale. A newlywed couple is lured away, along with fellow villagers, and imprisoned in a remote brick factory. They work as slaves for 17 years, never leaving the grounds, bearing children who also become slaves. One day, when...
by NITA BHALLA | Jun 1, 2015 | Reuters
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Governments must address human trafficking and slavery in a global development pact later this year, Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Monday, warning that the credibility of humanity was at stake if...
by The Guardian | May 12, 2015 | The Guardian
To mark the refresh of our child rights and business hub, we’ve compiled a list of who’s tweeting on the issues we’ll be covering Twitter list: nine top tweeters on business and child rights To mark the refresh of our child rights and business hub, we’ve compiled a...
by Vijay Govindarajan | May 9, 2015 | Harvard Business Review
I have always been fascinated by the question: How can for-profit corporations innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? My passion for this topic was formed at a very early age. Growing up in India, I realized that the country has too few resources to...
by Roger L. Martin, Sally R. Osberg | May 1, 2015 | Harvard Business Review
Social entrepreneurship has emerged over the past several decades as a way to identify and bring about potentially transformative societal change. A hybrid of government intervention and pure business entrepreneurship, social ventures can address problems that are too...
by Kailash Satyarthi | Apr 22, 2015 | The Huffington Post
Can we really call ourselves civilised when 168 million children are child labourers out of which 85 million are engaged in seriously hazardous work? A few days ago I attended the international launch of the Global Monitoring Report on Education for All goals. This is...
by Geoff Colvin | Mar 26, 2015 | Frobes
These extraordinary men and women are transforming business, government, philanthropy, and so much more. Though overshadowed by last year’s other recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Satyarthi has led the global fight against child labor for more than three decades....
by Thu-Huong Ha | Mar 20, 2015 | TED Blog
“All my best ideas were born of anger,” says children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi. As the first speaker in the closing session of TED2015, Satyarthi shows how fury can be an underestimated power to make change. “All my best ideas were born of anger,” says...
by Kailash Satyarthi | Feb 24, 2015 | The Huffington Post
IT’S HOW I HAVE ALWAYS FELT WHEN A CHILD IS A VICTIM. WHY COULDN’T IT BE ME INSTEAD? WHY COULDN’T I BEAR THE SUFFERING SO THAT INNOCENT CHILDREN WOULD NOT BE HURT? I know that I am not alone in feeling this way and I know that these thoughts are...
by Seth Doane | Jan 28, 2015 | CBS News
SATYARTHI RECENTLY MET WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA BUT GETTING A GREETING FROM THE CHILDREN IS ALL THE REWARD SATYARTHI NEEDS FOR FREEING THEM FROM A LIFE OF SLAVERY. STILL, SATYARTHI SAYS, HE DOESN’T THINK THE KIDS SEE HIM AS A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER. RAJASTHAN,...
