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{{Infobox person
| name               = Kailash Satyarthi
| image              = Kailash Satyarthi March 2015.jpg
| caption            = Kailash in 2015
| native_name        = 
| nationality        = [[Indian people|Indian]]
| birth_name         = Kailash Sharma<ref name="ti-rings">{{cite news |url= http://www.telegraphindia.com/1141011/jsp/nation/story_18915372.jsp |title=A street rings with 'Nobel' cry |first=Rasheed |last=Kidwai |date= 10 October 2014 |work=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)]] |location=Calcutta |archive-date= 14 October 2014 |archive-url= https://www.webcitation.org/6TKAJGvms?url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1141011/jsp/nation/story_18915372.jsp |quote= arr Quila area of the town. […] locals were seen drawing affiliation to institutions linked to Satyarhti including his schools – Toppura Primary School, Petit semenaire Higher Secondary School and Samrat Ashok Technological Institute (SATI) from where Satyarthi graduated in Engineering and later taught there for two years before embarking his journey to serve humanity. |access-date= 14 October 2014 }}</ref><ref name="tribpk-would">{{cite web |url= http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/24382/gandhiji-would-have-been-proud-of-you-kailash-satyarthi/ |title= Gandhiji would have been proud of you, Kailash Satyarthi |first= Sapan |last= Kapoor |date= 11 October 2014 |work= [[The Express Tribune]] Blogs |location= Karachi |access-date= 14 October 2014 |quote= Mr Kailash Satyarthi has come a long way since his engineering days at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, literally.  My father, who was one year senior to this electrical engineering student, vividly remembers him […] who would come to the college in his staple kurta-payjama with a muffler tied around his neck. }}</ref>
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1954|1|11|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Vidisha]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[India]]
| occupation         = 
| known for          = Activism for [[children's rights]] and [[Early childhood education|children's education]]
| alma_mater         = [[Barkatullah University]] ([[Bachelor of Engineering|B.E.]], [[Master of Engineering|M.E.]]) [[Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham]] ([[Honorary Degree|Honorary PhD]]) [[Alliance University]] ([[Honorary Degree|Honorary PhD]])
| movement           = 
| spouse             = Sumedha Satyarthi
| awards             = [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (2014)<br/>[[Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award]] (1995)<ref>{{cite web |url= http://kailashsatyarthi.net/blog/?page_id=7 |title=Brief Profile – Kailash Satyarthi |date=10 October 2014 |access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>
}}

'''Kailash Satyarthi''' (born 11 January 1954) is an Indian social reformer who campaigned against [[child labour in India]] and advocated the universal right to [[education]]. In 2014, he was the co-recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]], along with [[Malala Yousafzai]], "for their struggle against the suppression of children and ''young'' people and for the right of all children to education." He is the founder of multiple social activist organizations, including [[Bachpan Bachao Andolan]], [[Global March Against Child Labour]], [[Global Campaign for Education]] and Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation.

Kailash Satyarthi and his team at Bachpan Bachao Andolan have liberated more than 86,000<ref>https://bba.org.in/</ref> children in India from [[child labour]], slavery and [[child trafficking in India|trafficking]]. In 1998, Satyarthi conceived and led the Global March against Child Labour,<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |url= http://www.globalmarch.org/aboutus/howwestarted|title=How we started {{!}} Global March Against Child Labour |website= www.globalmarch.org |access-date=6 November 2017}}</ref> an 80,000&nbsp;km (ca. 49,710&nbsp;mi)-long march across 103 countries to put forth a global demand against worst forms of child labour. This became one of the largest social movements ever on behalf of exploited children. The demands of the marchers, which included children and youth (particularly the survivors of trafficking for forced labour, exploitation, sexual abuse, illegal organ transplants, armed conflict, etc.) were reflected in the draft of the [[Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention|ILO Convention 182]] on the Worst Forms of Child Labour. The following year, the Convention was unanimously adopted at the ILO Conference in Geneva.

He has served on the board and committee of several international organisations including the [[Center for Victims of Torture]] (USA), the [[International Labor Rights Forum|International Labor Rights Fund]] (USA), and the Cocoa Initiative. Satyarthi was among [[Fortune (magazine)|''Fortune'']] magazine's "World's Greatest Leaders" in 2015<ref>{{Cite news |url= http://www.livemint.com/Politics/PSgnyCQBtja2Llvacf5CIM/Modi-Kailash-Satyarthi-among-Fortunes-list-of-worlds-grea.html|title=Modi, Kailash Satyarthi among Fortune's list of world's greatest leaders |last=Singh |first=Yoshita |date=27 March 2015 |work= livemint.com |access-date= 6 November 2017}}</ref> and featured in [[LinkedIn]]'s Power Profiles List in 2017 and 2018.<ref>{{Cite news |url= http://www.news18.com/news/tech/modi-priyanka-linkedin-power-profiles-1499681.html |title= Modi, Priyanka Feature in LinkedIn Power Profiles List of 2017 |work=News18 |access-date= 6 November 2017}}</ref> Satyarthi led a nationwide march, Bharat Yatra,<ref>{{Cite news |url= http://www.thestatesman.com/india/kailash-satyarthis-bharat-yatra-culminates-rashtrapati-bhavan-1502512184.html |title=19,000 km in 35 days: Kailash Satyarthi's Bharat Yatra culminates at Rashtrapati Bhavan|date=16 October 2017|work=The Statesman |access-date=6 November 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> in India covering {{cvt|19,000|km}} in 35 days, to demand for legislation against child rape, [[child sexual abuse]] and trafficking.

==Early life==
Satyarthi was born in [[Vidisha]], a small town in the Indian state of [[Madhya Pradesh]] into a middy. He is the youngest among four brothers and a sister in his family. His father was a retired police head constable and his mother was an uneducated housewife with high morals. As per Satyarthi, this exceptionally idealistic and helpful nature of his mother had a big impact on him. He was raised in a locality (''mohalla'') where Hindus and Muslims lived with each other. As a four-year-old toddler, he learned to read Urdu from the Maulvi at the neighboring mosque and learned Hindi and English in his school.<ref name="Regunathan">{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/kailash-satyarthi-how-he-got-his-name/article7158927.ece|title=How he got his name|last=Regunathan|first=Sudhamahi|date=30 April 2015|work=The Hindu|access-date=6 November 2017|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> 
 
Satyarthi was significantly affected by the lack of school access for all children and his experiences with poverty in his youth.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kailashsatyarthi.net/biography/born-altruist.php|title=Kailash Satyarthi... the seeker of truth|last=Codrops|website=www.kailashsatyarthi.net|access-date=6 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107005411/http://www.kailashsatyarthi.net/biography/born-altruist.php|archive-date=7 November 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> He made efforts when young to try to change these inequalities<ref name="rs1">{{cite news |last1=S |first1=Sameena |title=Shakhsiyat – an interview with Kailash Satyarthi |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4-Ampsrc8A  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/H4-Ampsrc8A |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|access-date=12 October 2018 |publisher=Rajyasabha TV |date=2 October 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2015/08/02/nobel-laureate-kailash-satyarthi-168m-children-are-full-time-child-laborers/|title=Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi: "168M children are full-time child laborers…"|website=cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com|language=en|access-date=6 November 2017}}</ref> due to the circumstances of their birth.

Satyarthi completed his education in Vidisha. He attended Government Boys Higher Secondary School in Vidisha, and completed a undergraduate degree in [[electrical engineering]]<ref name="bust-profile">{{cite news|title=Kailash Satyarthi: A profile|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/kailash-satyarthi-a-profile-114101000942_1.html|newspaper=Business Standard India|date=10 October 2014|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref> at [[Samrat Ashok Technological Institute]] in Vidisha [then affiliated to the University of Bhopal, (now [[Barkatullah University]])]<ref name="ti-rings"/><ref name="n18-gears-up">{{cite news | url = http://www.news18.com/news/madhya-pradesh/vidisha-gears-up-for-celebration-after-kailash-satyarthis-name-comes-up-for-noble-peace-prize-621051.html | title = Kailash Satyarthi's hometown Vidisha celebrates Nobel win | first = Vivek | last = Trivedi | date =11 October 2014| work = News18.com | location = [[Noida, Uttar Pradesh]] | publisher = [[Network18]] | quote = He was born and brought up in [[Chhoti]] Haweli in Andar Quila area of the town. […] locals were seen drawing affiliation to institutions linked to Satyarhti including his schools – Toppura Primary School, Pedi school and Government Boys Higher Secondary School and Samrat Ashok Technological Institute (SATI) from where Satyarthi graduated in Electrical Engineering and later taught there for two years before embarking his journey to serve humanity. | access-date = 14 October 2014 }}</ref><ref name="tribpk-would"/> and a post-graduate degree in high-voltage engineering. Satyarthi joined his college as a lecturer for a few years.<ref name="guardian-saved">{{cite news|last1=Chonghaile|first1=Clar|title=Kailash Satyarthi: student engineer who saved 80,000 children from slavery|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/10/kailash-satyarthi-nobel-peace-prize-childrens-rights|access-date=10 October 2014|work=[[The Guardian]] | date=10 October 2014| location=London}}</ref>

==Work==
[[File: Kailash Satyarthi.jpg|thumb|Kailash Satyarthi]]

In 1980, Sathyarthi gave up his career as an electrical engineer and then founded the [[Bachpan Bachao Andolan]] (Save Childhood Movement).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fes.de/themen/menschenrechtspreis/mrp1999.php|title=Angaben auf der Seite des Menschenrechtspreises der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung|access-date=10 October 2014|website=Friedrich Ebert Stiftung|publisher=Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017235427/http://www.fes.de/themen/menschenrechtspreis/mrp1999.php|archive-date=17 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=NYT-Nobel>{{cite news|title=Nobel Peace Prize Is Awarded to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/world/europe/kailash-satyarthi-and-malala-yousafzai-are-awarded-nobel-peace-prize.html?hp|access-date=10 October 2014|work=[[New York Times]] | date=10 October 2014}}</ref> He conceived and led the [[Global March Against Child Labor]]<ref name="thenewheroes">{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/satyarthi.html |title=The New Heroes . Meet the New Heroes . Kailash Satyarthi – PBS |access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref> and its international advocacy body, the International Center on Child Labor and Education (ICCLE),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://knowchildlabor.org/about/|title=About|publisher=knowchildlabor.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130092437/http://www.knowchildlabor.org/about/|archive-date=30 November 2012}}</ref> which are worldwide coalitions of NGOs, teachers and trades unionists.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trustwomenconf.com/profile/kailash-satyarthi/|title=Trust Women – Kailash Satyarthi|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010120055/http://www.trustwomenconf.com/profile/kailash-satyarthi/|archive-date=10 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="FT">{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8fce16ca-5049-11e4-9822-00144feab7de.html |title=Malala and Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace prize|author=David Crouch |date=10 October 2014 |work=Financial Times |access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref> He has served as the President of the [[Global Campaign for Education]] from its inception in 1999 to 2011. Sathyarthi is one of its four founders alongside [[ActionAid]], [[Oxfam]] and [[Education International]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://efareport.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/the-role-of-civil-society-in-the-dakar-world-education-forum/?hootPostID=f122f7bc213a8e3609eda7570d882018 |title=The Role of Civil Society in the Dakar World Education Forum |date=10 September 2014 |access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>

In 1998, Satyarthi conceived and led the Global March against Child<ref name="auto"/> Labour traversing across 103 countries covering 80,000&nbsp; km to demand an International Law on Worst Forms of Child Labour. The march eventually led to the adoption of ILO Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child labor.

He established [[GoodWeave International]] (formerly known as Rugmark) as the first voluntary labelling, monitoring and certification system of rugs manufactured without the use of child-labour in South Asia.<ref name="Washington Post">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/10/who-is-indias-kailash-satyarthi-the-other-nobel-peace-prize-winner|title=Who is India's Kailash Satyarthi, the other Nobel Peace Prize winner?|work=Rama Lakshmi|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="The New Yorker">{{cite news|url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/malala-yousafzai-nobel-prize|title=A Fitting Nobel for Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi|work=Amy Davidson|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="PBS">{{cite news|url=https://www.pbs.org/now/enterprisingideas/RugMarkUSA.html|title=RugMark USA – Entrepreneurs in Depth – Enterprising Ideas|work=PBS-NOW|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref> In the late 1980s and early 1990s he focused its campaigns on [[raising awareness|raising consumer awareness]] on issues relating to the [[accountability]] of global corporations regarding socially responsible consumerism, trade and supply chains.<ref name="CNN">{{cite news|url=http://www.principalvoices.com/2007/social.entrepreneurs/video/kailash.satyarthi/|title=Principal Voices: Kailash Satyarthi|date=28 June 2007|publisher=CNN|access-date=10 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131213640/http://www.principalvoices.com/2007/social.entrepreneurs/video/kailash.satyarthi/|archive-date=31 January 2013}}</ref> Satyarthi has highlighted child labour as a human rights issue as well as a welfare matter and charitable cause. He has argued that it perpetuates [[poverty]], [[unemployment]], [[illiteracy]], population growth, and other social problems,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Satyarthi|first1=Kailash|title=Child labour perpetuates illiteracy, poverty and corruption|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/281292/child-labour-perpetuates-illiteracy-poverty.html|access-date=10 October 2014|work=Deccan Herald|date=26 September 2012}}</ref> his claims have been supported by several studies.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nanjunda|first1=D C|title=Anthropology and Child Labour|date=2009|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=9788183242783|page=91}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Shukla|first1=C K|last2=Ali|first2=S|title=Child Labour and the Law|date=2006|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=9788176256780|page=116}}</ref> He has had a role in linking the movement against [[child labour]] with efforts for achieving "Education for All".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oxotower.co.uk/events/talk-human-rights-defender-kailash-satyarthi/ |title=Talk by human rights defender Kailash Satyarthi |publisher=oxotower.co.uk |access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref> Satyarthi has been a member of a [[UNESCO]] body and has been on the board of the Fast Track Initiative (now known as the [[Global Partnership for Education]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fund-the-future.org/files/Fund_The_Future_2014_EN.pdf |title=Fund the Future: An action plan for funding the Global Partnership for Education |date=April 2014 |access-date=10 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016180319/http://www.fund-the-future.org/files/Fund_The_Future_2014_EN.pdf |archive-date=16 October 2014 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> Satyarthi had served on the board and committee of several international organisations including the [[Center for Victims of Torture]] (USA), the [[International Labor Rights Forum|International Labor Rights Fund]] (USA), and the International Cocoa Foundation. He brought child labour and slavery into the post-2015 development agenda for the United Nation's [[Sustainable Development Goals]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-nobel-laureate-kailash-satyarthi-calls-for-child-related-sdgs-at-un-summit-2129056|title=Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi calls for child-related SDGs at UN summit|work=DNA India|date=26 September 2015}}</ref>

Satyarthi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 "for the struggle against the suppression of children and young people and the right of all children to education".<ref name="Nobel">{{cite web|title=Kailash Satyarthi – Facts|website=Nobelprize.org|publisher=Nobel Media AB|date=10 October 2014|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2014/satyarthi-facts.html|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref> Satyarthi is the first natural-born Indian Nobel Peace Laureate. [[File:Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi.jpg|thumb|[[Malala Yousafzai]] and Kailash Satyarthi. The picture was taken at the press conference the day before they received the Nobel Peace Prize 2014]]

=== Organisations ===
* [[Bachpan Bachao Andolan]] was founded by Satyarthi in 1980<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bba.org.in/?q=content/history|title=History {{!}} Bachpan Bachao Andolan|website=www.bba.org.in|language=en|access-date=6 November 2017}}</ref> as a mass movement to create a child-friendly society where all children are free from exclusion and exploitation and receive free education. The movement identifies, liberates, rehabilitates, and educates in servitude through direct intervention, community participation, partnerships, and coalitions, promoting ethics in trade, unionizing workers, running campaigns on issues such he was so education, trafficking, forced brilliant labor, ethical trade, and by building child-friendly villages.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bba.org.in/?q=content/about-us|title=About Us {{!}} Bachpan Bachao Andolan|website=bba.org.in|language=en|access-date=6 November 2017}}</ref>
[[File: PM Modi meets Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi.jpg|thumb|Indian Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]] meets Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi]]
* Satyarthi established [[GoodWeave International]] (formerly Rugmark), a network of [[a non-profit organization]]s dedicated to ending illegal [[child labor]] in the [[rug making]] industry which provided the first voluntary labeling, monitoring, and certification system of rugs manufactured without the use of child labor in South Asia. This organization operated a campaign in Europe and the United States in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the intent of [[Raising awareness|raising consumer awareness]] of the issues relating to the [[accountability]] of global corporations regarding socially responsible consumerism and trade. Rugmark International re-branded the certification program and introduced the GoodWeave label in 2009. The organization was re-branded to GoodWeave International.

[[File: President Obama greets a young girl who was the guest of Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi in New Delhi.jpg|thumb|U.S. President [[Barack Obama]] greets a young girl ([[Payal Jangid]]) who was the guest of Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi in New Delhi]]

* The Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation (SCF) was established in 2004 by Satyarthi. It is a grassroots organization that spreads awareness and advocates for beneficial policies for children's rights. The foundation is the global umbrella for KSCF India and KSCF, USA.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://satyarthi.org.in/|title=The Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation|website=satyarthi.org.in|language=en|access-date=6 November 2017}}</ref>
* Satyarthi formed the [[Global Campaign for Education]] and became its president at its inception in 1999. Global Campaign for Education is an international coalition of [[non-governmental organizations]], working to promote children's and adult education through research and advocacy. It was formed in 1999 as a partnership between NGOs that were separately active in the area, including [[Action Aid]], [[Oxfam]], [[Education International]], [[Global March Against Child Labour]] and national organizations in Bangladesh, Brazil and South Africa.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.campaignforeducation.org/en/about-us|title=About us|last=User|first=Super|website=WWW.campaignforeducation.org|access-date=6 November 2017}}</ref>

== Bharat Yatra ==
The Bharat Yatra was launched by KSCF to spread awareness about child trafficking and sexual abuse. The campaign launched in [[Kanyakumari]] on 11 September 2017, and marched through seven routes covering 22 [[Indian states]] and [[Union territory|Union Territories]], and over 12,000&nbsp; km. The campaign was aimed at starting a social dialogue about [[child sexual abuse]] and [[child trafficking]], to taboo issues in India, to protect children vulnerable within their homes, communities, schools. The campaign collaborated with 5,000 civil society organizations, 60 Indian faith leaders, 500 Indian political leaders, 600 local, state and national bodies of the Indian government, 300 members of the Indian judiciary, and 25,000 educational institutions across India.

More than 1,200,000 marched for 35 days and led to the Criminal Law Amendment Act 2018 with a strict deterrent against child rape. The Yatra resulted in the Anti-Human Trafficking Bill being passed by the 16th Lok Sabha.<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://bharatyatra.online/ |title=Bharat Yatra |website= bharatyatra.online |language=en-US |access-date= 6 November 2017}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Satyarthi lives in [[New Delhi]], India. His family includes his wife, a son, daughter-in-law, a grandson, daughter and a son-in-law.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kailashsatyarthi.net/biography/ |access-date=10 October 2014 |title=Archived copy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020035738/http://www.kailashsatyarthi.net/biography/ |archive-date=20 October 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Kailash Satyarthi loves to cook for rescued child labourers|url=http://news.biharprabha.com/2014/10/kailash-satyarthi-loves-to-cook-for-rescued-child-labourers/ |access-date=10 October 2014 |author=Azera Parveen Rahman |agency=IANS |publisher=news.biharprabha.com |date=10 October 2014}}</ref>

==Awards and honours==
Satyarthi has been the subject of documentaries, television series, talk shows, advocacy and awareness films.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://beta.globalmarch.org/news/ropesintheirhands.php |title=Bachpan Bachao Andolan produced film nominated for New York Film Festival |publisher=globalmarch.org |access-date=10 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064937/http://beta.globalmarch.org/news/ropesintheirhands.php |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In September 2017, [[The Times Group|India Times]] listed Satyarthi as one of the 11 Human Rights Activists Whose Life Mission Is To Provide Others with a Dignified Life<ref>{{cite web |last1= Anjali Bisaria |title=11 Human Rights Activists Whose Life Mission Is to Provide Others with A Dignified Life |url= http://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/11-human-rights-activists-whose-life-mission-is-to-provide-others-with-a-dignified-life-329273.html |website= Indiatimes.com|date=7 September 2017 }}</ref> Satyarthi has been awarded the following honours:

* 1993: Elected [[Social entrepreneurship#Ashoka: Innovators for the Public|Ashoka Fellow (USA)]]<ref>{{cite web |title= Fellows: Kailash Satyarthi |url= https://www.ashoka.org/fellow/kailash-satyarthi |work=Ashoka: Innovators for the Public |year=1993 |access-date= 13 October 2014}}</ref>
* 1994: The Aachener International Peace Award (Germany)<ref>{{cite web |url= http://omahasuntimes.com/2014/10/nobel-peace-prize-2014-pakistani-malala-yousafzay-indian-kailash-satyarthi-honored-for-fighting-for-access-to-education/ |title= Nobel Peace Prize 2014: Pakistani Malala Yousafzay, Indian Kailash Satyarthi Honored For Fighting For Access To Education |work=Omaha Sun Times |access-date= 10 October 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141022081406/http://omahasuntimes.com/2014/10/nobel-peace-prize-2014-pakistani-malala-yousafzay-indian-kailash-satyarthi-honored-for-fighting-for-access-to-education |archive-date=22 October 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.aachener-friedenspreis.de/preistraeger/archiv/jahr-1994.html |archive-url= https://archive.today/20141010092158/http://www.aachener-friedenspreis.de/preistraeger/archiv/jahr-1994.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 10 October 2014 |title= Aachener Friedenspreis 1994: Kailash Satyarthi (Indien), SACCS (Südasien) und Emmaus-Gemeinschaft (Köln) |publisher= Aachener Friedenspreis}}</ref>
* 1995: The Trumpeter Award (US)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nclnet.org/trumpeter_awards_winners |title= Trumpeter Awards winners |author=Ben Klein |work= National Consumers League}}</ref>
* 1995: [[Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award]] (USA)<ref>{{cite web |title= Robert F Kennedy Center Laureates |url= http://rfkcenter.org/1995-kailash-satyarthi-india-2?view=article&lang=en |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407044346/http://rfkcenter.org/1995-kailash-satyarthi-india-2?view=article&lang=en |archive-date= 7 April 2014 }}</ref>
* 1998: Golden Flag Award (Netherlands)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.campaignforeducation.org/en/who-we-are/our-board/|title=Our Board}}</ref>
* 1999: [[Friedrich Ebert Foundation|Friedrich Ebert Stiftung]] Award (Germany)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fes.de/themen/menschenrechtspreis/en/overview.php |title=Human Rights Award of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung |publisher=fes.de |access-date=23 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180510/http://www.fes.de/themen/menschenrechtspreis/en/overview.php |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2002: [[Wallenberg Medal]], awarded by the [[University of Michigan]]<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.wallenberg.umich.edu/recipients.html |title= Medal Recipients – Wallenberg Legacy, University of Michigan |publisher= Univ. of Michigan |access-date= 23 January 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140219010422/http://www.wallenberg.umich.edu/recipients.html |archive-date= 19 February 2014 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
* 2006: Freedom Award (USA)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.architectsofpeace.org/architects-of-peace/kailash-satyarthi |title=Kailash Satyarthi – Architect of Peace |work= ArchitectsOfPeace.org }}</ref>
* 2007: recognized in the list of "Heroes Acting to End Modern Day Slavery" by the US [[State Department]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/2007/82801.htm |title=Heroes Acting To End Modern-Day Slavery |publisher= U.S. Department of State}}</ref>
* 2007: Gold medal of the Italian Senate (2007)<ref>{{cite web |url= http://rfkcenter.org/kailash-satyarthi-9 |title= Kailash Satyarthi |publisher= Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights |access-date= 10 October 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141018145954/http://rfkcenter.org/kailash-satyarthi-9 |archive-date= 18 October 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2008: Alfonso Comin International Award (Spain)<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.globalmarch.org/aboutus/kailash-satyarthi |title=Kailash Satyarthi |publisher= globalmarch.org |access-date= 10 October 2014}}</ref>
* 2009: Defenders of Democracy Award (US)<ref>{{cite news |title= Social Activist Kailash Satyarthi to get 2009 Defender of Democracy Award in U.S. |url= http://news.oneindia.in/2009/10/20/socialactivist-kailash-satyarthi-to-get-2009-defender-ofde.html |access-date= 10 October 2014 |date=20 October 2009}}</ref>
* 2014: [[Nobel Peace Prize]]<ref name="Hindu">{{cite news |url= http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/malala-kailash-satyarthi-win-nobel-peace-prize/article6488625.ece |title=Malala, Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize |author= P.J. George |newspaper=The Hindu|date=10 October 2014 }}</ref>
* 2014: Honorary Doctor of Philosophy Degree by [[Alliance University]]<ref>https://www.alliance.edu.in/news/the-alliance-university-conferred-2014-nobel-laureate-mr-kailash-satyarthi-and-padma-bhushan-smt-rajashree-birla-the-honorary-doctor-of-philosophy-degree</ref>
* 2015: Honorary Doctorate by [[Amity University, Gurgaon]]<ref>{{cite web |title= Satyarthi's '3D' model: Dream, discover, do |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/gurgaon/Satyarthis-3D-model-Dream-discover-do/articleshow/46318805.cms |website= Times of India |access-date= 3 October 2015}}</ref> 
* 2015: Harvard's University Award  "Humanitarian of the Year"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Nobel-winner-Kailash-Satyarthi-is-now-Harvards-Humanitarian-of-the-Year/articleshow/49427660.cms|title=Nobel-winner Kailash Satyarthi is now Harvard's 'Humanitarian of the Year' &#124; India News - Times of India|website=The Times of India}}</ref>
* 2016 Member-Fellow, Australian Institute of Management 
* 2016 Doctor of Humane Letters, Lynchburg College (USA)
* 2016 Doctor of Law (LLD), West Bengal University of Juridical Sciences (India)
* 2017: P.C Chandra Puraskaar<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/satyarthi-given-p-c-chandra-award-117042300901_1.html |title= Satyarthi given P.C. Chandra award |last=IANS |newspaper= Business Standard India |date=23 April 2017 |via=Business Standard}}</ref>
* 2017: Guinness World Record for Largest Child Safe Guarding Lesson
* 2017: Doctor Honoris Causa, EL Rector Magnífico de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide
* 2018: Personality of the Decade by [[Dainik Prayukti]]<ref>{{cite news |title= ??????,????????,??? ?? ????????? ???????? |url= http://www.univarta.com/news/india/story/1080285.html |access-date=5 January 2018 |agency=UNI VARTA |publisher=VARTA}}</ref>
* 2018: Honoris Causa in Science, Amity University (India)
* 2018: Santokhba Humanitarian Award 2018
* 2019: Wockhardt Foundation, Lifetime Achievement Award [[India TV]]<ref>{{cite news |title= Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi felicitated with Lifetime Achievement Award |url= https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india-nobel-peace-laureate-kailash-satyarthi-facilitated-with-lifetime-achievement-award-533559 |access-date=9 July 2019 |agency= PTI |publisher=India TV}}</ref>
* 2019: Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice [[AsiaNews]]<ref>{{cite news |title= Mother Teresa award to activists, NGOs that fight forced labour and human trafficking |url= http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Mother-Teresa-award-to-activists,-NGOs-that-fight-forced-labour-and-human-trafficking-48413.html |access-date=4 November 2019 |agency= PTI |publisher=Asia News}}</ref>

==Books==
* (2006) {{cite book |last1=Satyarthi|first1= Kailash |last2= Zutshi |first2= Bupinder |title= Globalisation, Development And Child Rights | publisher= Shipra Publications |location= New Delhi |year= 2006 |isbn= 9788175412705 }}
* (2016) ''आज़ाद बचपन की  ओर'', by Kailash Satyarthi; [[Prabhat Prakashan]]. {{ISBN|9789351867265}}
* (2017) ''Will for Children'', by Kailash Satyarthi; [[Prabhat Prakashan]]. {{ISBN|9789386300355}}
* (2017) ''... Because Words Matter'', by Kailash Satyarthi; [[Rupa Publications]]. {{ISBN|978-81-291-4845-2}}
* (2018) ''बदलाव के बोल'', by Kailash Satyarthi; [[Prabhat Prakashan]]. {{ISBN|9789352664863}}
* (2018) ''Every Child Matters'', by Kailash Satyarthi; [[Prabhat Prakashan]]. {{ISBN|9789352666386}}
* (2021) ''कोविड-19 सभ्यता का संकट और समाधान'', by Kailash Satyarthi; [[Prabhat Prakashan]]. {{ISBN|978-93-90366-96-5}}

==See also==
* [[Iqbal Masih]]
*[[Ehsan Ullah Khan]]
* [[List of peace activists]]

==References==
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==External links==
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