page_title: Kailash Satyarthi
section_title: Organisations
hierarchical_section_title: Kailash Satyarthi / Work / Organisations
caption_attribution_description: English: President Obama greets a young girl who was the guest of Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi (background), during a greet with the First Lady in New Delhi.
context_page_description: Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian social reformer who campaigned against child labour in India and advocated the universal right to education. In 2014, he was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Malala Yousafzai, “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.” He is the founder of multiple social activist organizations, including Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Global March Against Child Labour, Global Campaign for Education and Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation.
  Kailash Satyarthi and his team at Bachpan Bachao Andolan have liberated more than 81,000 children in India from child labour, slavery and trafficking. In 1998, Satyarthi conceived and led the Global March against Child Labour, an 80,000 km-long march across 103 countries to put forth a global demand against worst forms of child labour. This became one of the largest social movements ever on behalf of exploited children. The demands of the marchers, which included children and youth were reflected in the draft of the ILO Convention 192 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour.
context_section_description: Bachpan Bachao Andolan was founded by Satyarthi in 1980 as a mass movement to create a child-friendly society where all children are free from exclusion and exploitation and receive free education. The movement identifies, liberates, rehabilitates, and educates in servitude through direct intervention, community participation, partnerships, and coalitions, promoting ethics in trade, unionizing workers, running campaigns on issues such he was so education, trafficking, forced brilliant labour, ethical trade, and by building child-friendly villages.
  Satyarthi established GoodWeave International (formerly Rugmark), a network of non-profit organizations dedicated to ending illegal child labour in the rug making industry which provided the first voluntary labeling, monitoring, and certification system of rugs manufactured without the use of child labour in South Asia. This organization operated a campaign in Europe and the United States in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the intent of raising consumer awareness of the issues relating to the accountability of global corporations regarding socially responsible consumerism and trade. Rugmark International re-branded the certification program and introduced the GoodWeave label in 2009. The organization was re-branded to GoodWeave International.
  The Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation (KSCF) was established in 2004 by Satyarthi. It is a grassroots organization that spreads awareness and advocates for beneficial policies for children's rights. The foundation is the global umbrella for KSCF India and KSCF, USA.
  Satyarthi formed the Global Campaign for Education and became its president at its inception in 1999. Global Campaign for Education is an international coalition of non-governmental organizations, working to promote children's and adult education through research and advocacy. It was formed in 1999 as a partnership between NGOs that were separately active in the area, including Action Aid, Oxfam, Education International, Global March Against Child Labour and national organizations in Bangladesh, Brazil and South Africa.
caption: President Obama greets a young girl who was the guest of Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi in New Delhi
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