by KSCF US Team | Sep 21, 2022 | Field Notes
In September 2022, Kailash Satyarthi, the Steering Committee of Laureates and Leaders for Children, and a 100 Million campaign delegation of 17 child labor survivors and youth activists travelled to the UN General Assembly in New York to advocate for the rights of...
by KSCF US Team | Sep 20, 2022 | The Straits Times
By Theresa Tan, Senior Social Affairs Correspondent SINGAPORE – The man and his wife had been tricked into slavery and forced to work without pay for 17 years at a brick kiln in India’s Punjab state. After he escaped from his captors, he asked Mr Kailash...
by KSCF US Team | Aug 14, 2022 | Times of India
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Covid-19 pandemic has once again pushed children into forced labour, marriages, and trafficking, said Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi. He was in Visakhapatnam on Saturday to receive Gitam’s Foundation Award, 2022. In an interview...
by KSCF US Team | Aug 12, 2022 | Inter Press Service
By Yasmine Sherif and H.D. Wright NEW YORK, Aug 12 2022 (IPS) – Today marks International Youth Day, a global celebration of the transformative power of young people. Introduced by the United Nations General Assembly in 1999, the event was inaugurated not only...
by KSCF US Team | Aug 4, 2022 | FIRST POST
By Debarati S. Sen. Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi in an exclusive interview with First Post talks about the urgent need for mental health and legal support for child abuse victims, law against trafficking, need of a global fund for protection of kids and more… He...
by KSCF US Team | Jun 24, 2022 | Field Notes
In April, our founder Kailash Satyarthi met with representatives of the US government as part of our ongoing work to accelerate an end to child labor. Meetings in DC with the Biden Administration resulted in a request from the Deputy National Security Advisor, Daleep...
by KSCF US Team | May 24, 2022 | Inter Press Service
By Fawzia Moodley. Durban, May 24 2022 (IPS) – Lucky Agbavor sleeps on a mattress in a church in Accra, Ghana sells juice to earn an income, and has been a child labourer since he was four. Now he has made an impact on the international stage when he...
by KSCF US Team | May 20, 2022 | Inter Press Service
By Lyse Comins. DURBAN, May 20 2022 (IPS) – Governments of the world must focus on providing quality free education and prosecuting corrupt officials and people who siphon state and donor funds as crucial steps towards taking decisive action to fight child...
by KSCF US Team | May 20, 2022 | Field Notes
The Fifth Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labor was hosted by the Government of South Africa in Durban between 15-20 May, 2022. Convened with only three years left to achieve the goal of the elimination of all child labor by 2025, as established by SDG...
by KSCF US Team | May 16, 2022 | Inter Press Service
By Fawzia Moodley. “I have been talking to leaders of rich countries to address the problem of post-pandemic economic meltdown. We have to work for social protection for marginalised people in low-income countries and focus on children, education, health, and...
