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Kailash Satyarthi fears upsurge in child labour as pandemic shrivels economy

While rates of child labour have declined over the last few years, about 10.1 million children are still in some form of servitude in India, according to the United Nations children's agency UNICEF.

1 min read21 Sep 2020
Industry

Raids and rescues: Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi film exposes India child slavery

Kailash Satyarthi, 64, whose charity Bachpan Bachao Andolan has been credited with freeing at least 80,000 child slaves in India over 30 years

2 min read22 Jan 2018
Politics

Use technology to solve social problems: Kailash Satyarthi

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi asked LinkedIn India professionals to use technology to solve social problems in addition to their business requirements

1 min read22 Jul 2017
Politics

India set to ratify global conventions to combat child labour

India would join majority of countries that have adopted the legislation to prohibit and place severe restrictions on the employment and work of children

3 min read13 Jun 2017
Politics

Kailash Satyarthi’s Nobel citation recovered from Sangam Vihar jungles

Delhi police say the Nobel citation of Kailash Satyarthi has been recovered from the jungles in Sangam Vihar more than a month after it was stolen from his south Delhi home

1 min read12 Mar 2017
Politics

Kailash Satyarthi’s Nobel citation recovered; 3 held for theft

Kailash Satyarthi's original Nobel Peace Prize medal is on display at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum since 2015

1 min read12 Feb 2017
Politics

Theft at Kailash Satyarthi’s house, Nobel citation stolen

Child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 shares the prize with Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai

1 min read7 Feb 2017
Politics

Note ban breaks the backbone of trafficking industry

Trafficking is one of India's biggest organized crime rackets

2 min read20 Dec 2016
Mint-lounge

India’s children

This Independence Day, we celebrate the remarkable optimism and fortitude of children growing up in difficult circumstancesstories that also reveal who we are as a nation

1 min read13 Aug 2016
Mint-lounge

Kailash Satyarthi: The child rights champion

The Nobel laureate on his disappointment with the latest changes in the child labour law and why children don't matter to politicians

20 min read12 Aug 2016
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