We have reduced the number of out-of-school children by half. I humbly accept this award on behalf of all such martyrs, my fellow activists across the world and my countrymen. We must keep our promises.Over fifty years ago, on the first day of my school, I met a cobbler boy my age sitting outside the gate of my school. In the pursuit of global progress, not a single person should be left out or left behind in any corner of the world, from East to West, from South to North. TODAY it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, right to safety, right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.TODAY, beyond the darkness, I see the smiling faces of our children in the blinking stars.
Fifteen laureates were awarded in 2019, for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. What are we doing? I challenge this culture of silence and this culture of passivity, this culture of neutrality.I call upon all the governments, intergovernmental agencies, businesses, faith leaders, workers, teachers and NGOs, and each one of us, to put an end to all forms of violence against children.Slavery, trafficking, child marriages, child labour, sexual abuse, and illiteracy these things have no place in any civilised society.Friends, we can do this. A vision of that cobbler boy sitting with me in my classroom.I am TODAY, and you are TODAY. Let us march from mortality to divinity.Tasked with a mission to manage Alfred Nobel's fortune and has ultimate responsibility for fulfilling the intentions of Nobel's will.For more than a century, these academic institutions have worked independently to select Nobel Laureates in each prize category.Several outreach organisations and activities have been developed to inspire generations and disseminate knowledge about the Nobel Prize. He is often threatened by unscrupulous middlemen who kidnap children to work in garment factories and was injured badly while rescuing child slaves from stone quarries in Rajasthan. I represent millions of those children who are left behind and that’s why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder. I asked my teachers: “Why is he working outside? )(Let’s walk together. Faith leaders and institutions, and all of us must stand with our children.We must be bold, we must be ambitious, and we must have the will. Her question is for all of us. We exchange our goods and services in one single global market. We have reduced the number of child labourers by a third.
Let us globalise compassion.Mahatma Gandhi said, “If we are to teach real peace in this world… we shall have to begin with the children.” I humbly add, let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.I ask – Whose children are they who stitch footballs, yet never played with one?I remember an eight-year-old girl we rescued from intergenerational forced labour from stone quarries. "Mr Satyarthi, who turned 60 in January, has long campaigned against child labour and rescued children from servitude.
Nobel Lecture by Kailash Satyarthi, Oslo, 10 December 2014.Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, dear brother Tom Harkin, brothers and sisters, and my dear daughter Malala. Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation is on Facebook. And demanded, a new international law for the abolition of worst form of child labour, and it has happened, we did it, millions of individuals did it.Friends! )(I give the biggest credit of this honour to my movement’s Kaalu Kumar, Dhoom Das and Adarsh Kishore from India and Iqbal Masih from Pakistan who made the supreme sacrifice for protecting the freedom and dignity of children. A profile of Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to combat child labour and child trafficking.