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Indian -Kailash Satyarthi wins Noble Peace Prize

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Congrats to Kailash Satyarthi for winning the coveted Noble Peace Prize! Fantastic achievement!Let us compliment him!

Kailash Satyarthi wins Noble Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace prize is awarded to Indian Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistani Malala Yousafzay. The Norwegian Nobel committee today announced the prize, an award that comes with a $1.24 million check.

This is what Wiki has on Kailash Satyarthi: Born 11 January 1954, Satyarthi is an Indian children's rights activist. He has been active in the Indian movement against child labour since the 1990s. So far his organization, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, has freed over 80,000 children from various forms of servitude and helped in successful re-integration, rehabilitation and education. Together with Malala Yousafzai, he won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.


Kailash Satyarthi, Malala win Nobel Peace Prize
 
krish44 said:
For such people recognition has to come from abroad

How sad?
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I think the organized sector does not employ child labor! Neither the Government supports! It is the unorganized sector which use child labor! But why has the Government of India not recognized its own gem! As per rediff Kailash has rescued 77K child labor and has worked on their education and rehabilitation!

Krishji,

Your concern is valid
 
In fact I had not heard of him until he got the nobel prize.

his organisation name ' bachpan bacho andholan' sounded familiar.

one finds a lot of children working in food joints, vehicle-cycle, auto, car repair facilities, provision shops etc .

their parents think that these kids can learn on the job and become self sufficient.

the worst is the status of kids trafficked from poor states who are just bonded labour in towns.

this is a very serious issue.in delhi
 
India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pak's Malala Yousafzai win Nobel peace prize

India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pak's Malala Yousafzai win Nobel peace prize


LONDON: History was made on Friday when an Indian and a Pakistani national jointly shared the Nobel peace prize for 2014, the first time ever.

India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai were awarded the Nobel peace prize 2014 jointly for "showing great personal courage and in their struggle against the suppression of children and for the right of all children to education".

Child labour activist Satyarthi became India's 8th Nobel laureate while the champion for children's education Malala became her country's second citizen to be given the most coveted prize. Malala is also the youngest to be awarded the globally prestigious annual prize.

READ ALSO: Who is Kailash Satyarthi?

The two will split the £690,000 ($1.11m) prize announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.




The committee said 60-year-old Satyarthi maintained Mahatma Gandhi's tradition and headed various forms of protests and demonstrations, all peaceful, focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain.

According to the committee "he has also contributed to the development of important international conventions on children's rights".

India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pak's Malala Yousafzai win Nobel peace prize - The Times of India
 
What has the Nobel Committee said about Kailash Satyarthi & the other winner Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan!

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014


The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 is to be awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. Children must go to school and not be financially exploited. In the poor countries of the world, 60% of the present population is under 25 years of age. It is a prerequisite for peaceful global development that the rights of children and young people be respected. In conflict-ridden areas in particular, the violation of children leads to the continuation of violence from generation to generation.

Showing great personal courage, Kailash Satyarthi, maintaining Gandhi’s tradition, has headed various forms of protests and demonstrations, all peaceful, focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain. He has also contributed to the development of important international conventions on children’s rights.

Despite her youth, Malala Yousafzay has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education, and has shown by example that children and young people, too, can contribute to improving their own situations. This she has done under the most dangerous circumstances. Through her heroic struggle she has become a leading spokesperson for girls’ rights to education.

The Nobel Committee regards it as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism. Many other individuals and institutions in the international community have also contributed. It has been calculated that there are 168 million child labourers around the world today. In 2000 the figure was 78 million higher. The world has come closer to the goal of eliminating child labour.

The struggle against suppression and for the rights of children and adolescents contributes to the realization of the "fraternity between nations" that Alfred Nobel mentions in his will as one of the criteria for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Oslo, 10 October 2014

Announcement | Nobels fredspris
 
Nobel Peace prize 2014

Nobel Peace prize 2014

Pakistani teenager and Indian children’s rights activist beat Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, the Pope and Vladimir Putin to the prestigious prize

Satyarthi said he is “extremely delighted” to have been given the honour, according to the Press Trust of India. He said it was a recognition of the fight for children’s rights.

The honour is for all the citizens of India. I will continue my work for welfare of children: Satyarthi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nM7IXR2T2s

Geir Lundestad, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, answers questions about the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. The interviewer is freelance journalist Geir Helljesen.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/li...-live-coverage#block-5437cc08e4b06dac24af5d44
 
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vgane said:
One Indian ranting about another Indian, as usual!
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It is more like yet another sick Indian reporter contributing to or employed by western media, trying to impress their editors about his/her objectivity. This reporter is perhaps trying to ingratiate herself with her media bosses. She needs to win a Pulitzer, if not a Nobel!
 
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10 Things That You Need To Know About The Indian Who Just Won The Nobel Peace Prize


10 Things That You Need To Know About The Indian Who Just Won The Nobel Peace Prize


1. He was born on January 11, 1954, in Vidisha, located near Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

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2. 60-year-old Satyarthi is the 8th Nobel Laureate born in India.

3. He gave up a promising career as an electrical engineer when he was all of 26 to dedicate his life to help kids forced into slavery.



4. The founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan, he has helped free around 80,000 children from the clutches of slavery and child labour.

5. He also rescues women from enslavement in filthy factories with deplorable conditions and sexual assault.



6. He created "Rugmark" which certifies that carpets and rugs sold abroad aren't made by child labourers.

The movement succesfully spread awareness about child rights globally.


7. He is the face of Global March Against Child Labor - a large group of as many as 2000 social-purpose organizations and unions active in 140 countries.





8. He heads the South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS) which rallies national and international institutions and NGOs to bring pressure on governments, manufacturers, and importers to stop exploiting illegal labor.


9. Despite facing false charges and death threats for his work, he continued to work for his vision.

Two of his colleagues have even been murdered.

10. His work has been appreciated and honoured earlier as well.

He received a grant from the Skoll Foundation, the Freedom Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, and the US State Department's Heroes Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery award


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vgane said:
One Indian ranting about another Indian, as usual!
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This is what the Nobel prize winner had to say about how children are treated in India.

"Small children of six, seven years and older are forced to work fourteen hours a day, without breaks or a day of rest. If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from the trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes."

This is what it takes to receive grants and wonderful awards from phoren countries.

All of you please clap!
 
கால பைரவன்;265251 said:
This is what the Nobel prize winner had to say about how children are treated in India.

"Small children of six, seven years and older are forced to work fourteen hours a day, without breaks or a day of rest. If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from the trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes."

This is what it takes to receive grants and wonderful awards from phoren countries.

All of you please clap!
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Dear KBji,

Is it not a stellar initiative? Let us take beedi,cracker making? Are not children employed in these industries..Are we not seeing small boys employed in tea stalls..In most cases it may be because of family circumstances- large families with many mouths to be fed coupled with extreme poverty; being beaten up may be by the employers who are holding them as bonded labor
 
At the time of announcement, the announcer mentioned as Hindu and Muslim, which is not necessary. Nobel Prize should be above politics and religion.
 
CHANDRU1849 said:
At the time of announcement, the announcer mentioned as Hindu and Muslim, which is not necessary. Nobel Prize should be above politics and religion.
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Why bring in Hindu & Muslim in this..Here is a set of tweets from Francois Gautier a French and supporter of the Hindu Right! Though I am not apologetic about Kailash Satyarthi getting the coveted Noble prize but what Francois avers may after all not be falsehood or any sort of jealousy personified!

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Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to a man who brings again a bad image of India. It's typical of the western christian slant against Hindu India

Nobel Peace Prize, typical of West always equating Pakistan, a small rogue islamic state, with India, a large, democratic, vibrant country

There are many more worthy Indians than Kailash Satyarthi to get Nobel Peace Prize, Indians who do 100 times more sewa work, such as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

MotherTeresa & Kailash Satyarthi r the Indians the West likes to love,as they correspond t the stereotypes they have of India since Kipling

Do u know that Nobel Peace Prize is blood money frm a company which invented nitroglycerine that killed millions & that it once owned Bofors?

I believe in a better world & happy endings & beauty & true love & a triumphant India - the India of Sri Sri - not of KailashSatyarthi

KailashSatyarthi. Yes,there r still unforgivable abuse here- castes, child labor, rapes-But so many beautiful,noble things the West ignores

This Nobel Prize stems of colonial image West still has of India.Yes child labor shud b eradicated.But there r also millions happy children

No doubt Mother Teresa or Kailash Satyarthi do good work,but they willfully never care to balance negative image of India their work carries

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Anyway the press release talks of a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani; a first in Nobel history to bring religion in the notification.
 
Why So Many Pakistanis Hate Their Nobel Peace Prize Winner
The BBC quoted Tariq Khattack, editor of the Pakistan Observer, condemning the prize and Malala:
“She is a normal, useless type of a girl. Nothing in her is special at all. She’s selling what the West will buy.”
Where does this animosity come from? Why isn’t she universally praised?
Malala came to prominence as an anonymous blogger for BBC Urdu in the deeply conservative Swat region of northwest Pakistan, where she bravely defied Taliban dictates that girls should not go to school. In 2012, after she had gone public with the support of her father, she was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen while on a bus. Rushed to Britain for treatment, she miraculously recovered and became an international campaigner for the rights of children—and especially girls—to get an education.


For Malala to be so uniquely honored when so many young girls in the Swat Valley face similar dangers engendered a lot of jealousy among many in Pakistan.
Why So Many Pakistanis Hate Their Nobel Peace Prize Winner - The Daily Beast
 
Kailash Satyarthi may not get much recognition in india though the cause he stands for is a good one.

If anybody get rewarded for work in social sector specially by the west most view it with suspicion if there is a hidden agenda.
 
We will not recognize other peoples contribution, particularly in the field of uplifting of the poor, and then we will be jealous if a foreign body recognizes them.

What a logic!!!!!

Instead of helping these brave souls who risk their life and money to save the downtrodden, we will criticize them.

Somehow we have this grandiose idea that "mythical India" of the past was great and all its inhabitants were well read, rich and happy. Please wake up and see around you. If you still think that we do not have to improve the quality of life of our fellow men (and women) then you need psychiatric help.

Have you seen the children being rescued every day? I spent one week in Mumbai Train station with a group. They were threatened by the mafia not to rescue the girls (as young as 8), we were only able to rescue boys. We used to rescue between 35-40 kids everyday.
How many here in this site have done something about it? This is not an attack, but just a reminder that turning blind eye to the problem, does not make the problem go away. Walk in the shoes of these great people even for a day, before you cast aspirations on their motive.
 
Oneness among Hindus is terribly low. This is due to castes, lack of proper education on human relationship. helping tendency etc. Right from childhood, Hindus are being forced to give prominence to only war related subjects.

Take the case of Tamil Nadu. The State produced a wonderful humanist - VALLALAR. How many people in TN know about his teachings. Even in TN, war related subjects were given importance, but thanks to the rationalist movement, the rise of dalits, BCs and MBCs, the impact has been reduced considerably.
 
vgane said:
Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to a man who brings again a bad image of India. It's typical of the western christian slant against Hindu India
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So Truth is bad?

Are we supposed to sweep everything under the carpet to paint a rosy picture with the colors of untruth?

Only those who dare face the truth no matter how bitter it tastes are capable of uplifting society.

In fact when I read about great people who go to any extent to expose the Truth I feel totally ashamed of myself that I do absolutely nothing for society.
 
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