Kailash Satyarthi

India is the mother of one billion solutions and should lead the globalisation of compassion, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi said at the inauguration of the Civil20 India 2023 inception conference here on Monday. C20 India 2023 is one of the official Engagement Groups of the G20 that provides a platform for Civil Society Organisations (CSO) around the world to voice people's aspirations to the world leaders of G20. The inauguration of the conference was attended by spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. More than 200 delegates from India and abroad will be attending the three-day conference. Speaking on the occasion, Satyarthi said India may be a land of 100 problems, but it is the mother of one billion solutions. The C20 is driven by the core values of spirituality and it does not mean any religion. It is the driving force soul of humanity, he said. Satyarthi expressed concerns that out of a

Assam government's decision to eliminate child marriage by penalising the perpetrators was a welcome step but the state must provide financial assistance, legal support and rehabilitation to the victims, the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation said on Wednesday. The government should immediately provide Rs 2,000 per month from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund as financial assistance to every girl whose husband has been arrested and until he gets bail, said the organisation founded by the social reformer who received the Nobel Peace prize in 2014. The state and district legal service authority should be directed to grant interim compensation within a week to all girls where the police have invoked sections under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO) along with sections of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act (PCMA), 2006, it added. Assistance should also be given to children born out of child marriages, the foundation's Managing Director Rahul Kumar .

Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi endorsed the idea of the Central govt to extend the marriageable age of girls to 21 from 18 while launching the nationwide campaign for a 'Child Marriage Free India'

In a Q&A, the Nobel Peace Laureate and founder, Bachpan Bachao Andolan buttresses his view by pointing out that 1.6 bn children in the world couldn't attend school for more than a year

The Nobel laureate said that $52 bn can provide social protection for every child and every pregnant woman in low income countries

This is the Year for the Elimination of Child Labor. What can democracies do to make this a reality?

Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi has demanded urgent passage of Anti-Trafficking Bill in the upcoming monsoon session of parliament without further delay

The pandemic has exacerbated the crisis for the most vulnerable sections, and children who have lost a parent or have been orphaned are among the worst hit

A campaign against child trafficking was launched in Bihar by Nobel peace prize winner Kailash Satyarthi's foundation, which claimed that the state was among the worst affected by the scourge

Other LinkedIn Influencers from India include Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Kailash Satyarthi, Vani Kola, and Anny Divya.

Most people don't know how deep-rooted the problem of child labour and slavery is, says Satyarthi

The biggest problem in India is the marginalisation that comes with our caste system

Satyarthi said some countries had some laws dealing with online child pornography but they were not enough

Satyarthi says PM Narendra Modi's govt will bring in stringent legislation to curb the menace

He says, India didn't have a law when he came to protecting children from abuse, trafficking

Govt should protect one generation of children and the subsequent generations will be protected

Two other houses in the same area as Satyarthi's had also been broken into, police said

Kailash Satyarthi is currently in the US

Make in India cannot be successful on the toil, miseries and abuses of young children in the manufacturing sector, the Nobel laureate wrote in a letter to PM

The Nobel Laureate described illiteracy as the biggest impediment to the growth of any country.