Know about Nobel Peace Prize 2014 Winner from India Kailash Satyarthi

Know about Nobel Peace Prize 2014 Winner from India Kailash Satyarthi 

Nobel Peace Prize Details:

Name: Kailash Satyarthi

Born: 11 January 1954, Vidisha, India

Residence at the time of the award: India

Prize motivation: "For their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"

Prize share: 1/2 With Malala Yousafzai

Here's all that you need to know about Kailash Satyarthi:

Kailash Satyarthiis an Indian children's rights activist and a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He has been active in the Indian movement against child labour since the 1990s. So far his organization, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, has freed over 80,000 children from various forms of servitude and helped in successful re-integration, rehabilitation and education. Satyarthi is the seventh Nobel Prize winner for India and only the second Indian winner of the Nobel Peace Prize after Mother Teresa in 1979. He was awarded the 2014 Noble peace prize jontly with Malala Yousafzai,"for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"., Pakistani girl activist Malala Yousufzai, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".

     Today, the non-profit organization Bachpan Bachao Andolan he founded is leading the movement to eliminate child trafficking and child labour in India. The organisation has been working towards rescuing trafficked children for over 30 years. It receives information from a large network of volunteers. Satyarthi is an Indian child rights activist, He studied engineering at the Govt Engineering College, Vidisha and gave up his career as an electrical engineer over three decades ago to start Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Childhood Movement.

     Satyarthi has said his social conscience was awoken when he was six and noticed a boy his age on the steps outside the school with his father, cleaning shoes.Seeing many such children working instead of being educated, he felt an urge as he grew older to solve the problem -- launching him on his career of activism."I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass. ... to stand up against such social evils," he said in the Kennedy Centre interview.