Journalism of Courage
Kailash Satyarthi, who got the Nobel Peace Prize this year, has been active in movement against child labour since the 1990s in India. 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. (Source: AP)
Satyarthi has headed various forms of peaceful protests and demonstrations, focusing on the exploitation of children for financial gain. (Source: AP)
He has been a member of a UNESCO body established to examine this and has been on the board of the Fast Track Initiative.
In this June 12, 2009 file photo, Kailash Satyarthi, , third from left, Indian coordinator of the Global March against child labour, Chilean Juan Somavia, left, director general of the International Labor Organization, Tom Harkin, second from left, senator of Iowa at the Congress of the United States, pose with school children of the Canton of Geneva, during the World Day Against Child Labour at the Place of Nations in front of the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. (Source: AP)
He has passionately argued that child trafficking and labour perpetuate poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and population growth.
He has advocated for stricter laws against child trafficking and labour and met with mixed success so far. (Source: AP)
Malala Yousafzai, who won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, is hailed around the world as a champion of women's rights who stood up bravely against the Taliban to defend her beliefs.
In this Feb. 18, 2014 file photo, Malala Yousafzai, visits Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan. Children's rights activists Yousafzai, 17, of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. (Source: AP Photo)
But in her deeply conservative homeland, many view her with suspicion as an outcast or even as a Western creation aimed at damaging Pakistan's image abroad. Malala, now aged 17, became globally known in 2012 when Taliban gunmen almost killed her for her passionate advocacy of women's right to education.
--- FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, Malala Yousafzai listens as Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust introduces her to reporters at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Children's rights activists Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India and have won the Nobel Peace Prize. (AP Photo/Jessica Rinaldi, File)
She has since become a symbol of defiance in the fight against militants operating in Pashtun tribal areas in northwest Pakistan - a region where women are expected to keep their opinions to themselves and stay at home.
File photo dated July 14, 2014, Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai shakes hands with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, at the Presidential villa, in Abuja, Nigeria. Yousafzai on Monday won a promise from Nigeria’s leader to meet with the parents of some of the 219 schoolgirls held by Islamic extremists for three months. (Source: (AP Photo/FILE)
"The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born," she told the United Nations last year.
File photo dated Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, Malala Yousafzai, speaks to The Associated Press at Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border, in Mafraq, Jordan. Pakistani activist Malala said Tuesday that the plight of Syrian refugee children deprived of proper education was a stark reminder of the “dark days” for Pakistani children under their hard-line rulers. (Source: AP Photo/FILE)
"I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there is a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me. I would not shoot him," she said in a speech which captivated the world.
File photo dated Wednesday Nov. 20, 2013, Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai receives the Sakharov Prize 2013 from Martin Schulz, President of the European parliament, in Strasbourg eastern France. In a speech accepting the EU’s top human right award, Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai has urged the 28-nation bloc to better help the millions of children who are denied a formal education. (Source: AP Photo/Christian Lutz, FILE)
Malala has also won the European Union's human rights award and was one of the favourites to win the Nobel Prize last year.
In this Oct. 18, 2013, file photo Malala Yousafzai gives a copy of her book "I Am Malala" to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II during a reception for youth, education and the Commonwealth at Buckingham Palace in London. (Source: AP Photo/Yui Mok, FILE)
Now based in Britain, she is unable to return to her homeland because of Taliban threats to kill her and her family members. The current Taliban chief, Mullah Fazlullah, was the one who ordered the 2012 attack against her.
In this undated photo released on Oct. 7, 2013, by the Daily Mirror newspaper, David Beckham presents a Mirror Pride of Britain Teenager of Courage Award to Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for going to school. (Source: AP Photo/Philip Coburn, Daily Mirror, POOL, FILE)
Malala Yousafzai has enrolled in a school in Birmingham and become a global campaigner for women's right to education and other human rights issues, taking up issues such as the situation in Syria and Nigieria.
File photo dated March 10, 2014, Malala Yousafzai gives a speech as she attends the Commonwealth Observance day multi-faith celebrations at Westminster Abbey, London. (Source: AP Photo / Arthur Edwards, FILE)
In her native Swat valley, however, many people view Malala, backed by a supportive family and a doting father who inspired her to keep up with her campaign, with a mixture of suspicion, fear and jealousy.
This undated file photo provided by the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, 15-year old Pakistani shooting victim Malala Yousafzai recovers in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, after being shot in the head by the Taliban in Pakistan for advocating education for girls. (Source: AP Photo)
At the time of her Nobel nomination last year, social media sites were brimming with insulting messages. "We hate Malala Yousafzai, a CIA agent," said one Facebook page.
She was a young student in the Swati town of Mingora in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province when she became interested in women's rights. At the time, the Taliban were in power in the strategic valley after they took control over the region and imposed strict Islamic rules, including their opposition to women's education.
File photo dated Sept. 25, 2013, Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting education for girls, is given the Leadership in Civil Society Award by Queen Rania of Jordan at the Clinton Global Initiative's Citizen Awards Dinner, in New York. (Source: AP Photo)
