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Nobel Peace Prize for Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai


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It was better if Noble Prizes were limited to science and medicine. Currently it is used by west to dictate rest of the world to say what is good and who is good.
Agree, even the literature awards are political.
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What you need to know about the life-saving work that won Kailash Satyarthi the Nobel Prize http://qz.com/279255/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-work-that-won-kailash-satyarthi-a-nobel/

Born in 1954 in Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh, Satyarthi has a degree in electrical engineering. Before plunging into social service, he taught engineering at a college in Bhopal. He founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan in 1980. It is regarded as India’s first organization working for child rights. Satyarthi has organized several marches to spread awareness about child rights in India. In 1998, he mobilized around 10,000 NGOs around the world to participate in the Global March Against Child Labour. With his work, he has freed at least 75,000 people, including children, from bonded labor In 1994, he started a program called RugMark, later renamed as GoodWeave. This program certifies and puts tags on all rugs and carpets made in factories that are child-labour free. The US state department described Satyarthi as a “Hero acting to end modern-day slavery” in its Trafficking in Persons Report in 2007. In 2007, Satyarthi and his co-workers rescued boys aged between 8 and 14 working in garment factories that were making clothes for the US retail giant GAP in New Delhi. He has also received several awards for his work. Some of them include: Defenders of Democracy Award in 2009; Wallenberg Medal from University of Michigan in 2002 and Rober F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in 1995 among others
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