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Pakistani Teen Malala Yousafzai Shares Nobel Peace Prize [NPR.org]

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Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen who was attacked by Taliban militants for promoting education for girls, will share the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian campaigner against exploitation of children.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee says on Nobelprize.org:

"Showing great personal courage, Kailash Satyarthi, maintaining Gandhi's tradition, has headed various forms of protests and demonstrations, all peaceful, focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain. He has also contributed to the development of important international conventions on children's rights.
"Despite her youth, Malala Yousafzai has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education, and has shown by example that children and young people, too, can contribute to improving their own situations. This she has done under the most dangerous circumstances. Through her heroic struggle she has become a leading spokesperson for girls' rights to education."

 

[For more of this story, written by Scott Neuman, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetw...es-nobel-peace-prize]

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Your task may be easier, if you avail yourself of the network developed by a then 13 year old Canadian boy who "labored" internationally, to accomplish a similar task, and a book whose exact title I do not recall, but includes "Child Labor" in it. That took place before the recent change in, I believe, Bolivia, where laboring is now permitted when their nationals are over Ten Years of Age....[please excuse my outrage]. ...

 

 

There are 165 million children toiling as child laborers around the globe, a number that Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi has dedicated his life to reducing. His organization,Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Childhood, works to free children in India from forced servitude and enroll them in school. The 60-year-old father of two has spent decades campaigning to end child labor and human trafficking in India.

 

On Friday, his efforts were rewarded as he received the Nobel Peace Prize, along with 17-year-old Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in the head almost exactly two years ago.

Satyarthi and his group have worked to make India's rug industry child labor-free, and have liberated nearly 80,000 children since Bachpan Bachao Andolan was founded in 1980. "Won't rest until child labor is eliminated," he tweeted on Friday.

 

But despite his groundbreaking efforts, child labor continues to be a problem in India — and elsewhere around the world. More than 11 percent of children in India were involved in child labor in 2012, according to UNICEF, a particularly concerning number when you consider that India has more children than any country in the world.

We talked with Juliane Kippenberg, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch in the children's rights division, about the continuing problem of child labor, and what Satyarthi's Nobel Peace Prize means for the issue.

 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/goats...liminate-child-labor

 

 

This is  a very important topic that exists in America also.  I just want you all to know, anywhere children cannot play there is pain.  This occurs in America too

 

1. It occurs with certain parents like mine who make their children work in the fields (in rural areas of America where this slavery can be hidden) from Sun-up till Sun-down with out a break and not a dime for the work they have done.  I hoed weeds in fields, fixed combines, got run over by a tractor and not taken to the hospital and I believe this is a human rights violation.  My dad really acted like a new-age slave master with a whip that was his fist and the fear that he infused us with every day -- He could take our lives at any second and no one would know it and no one would care and he literally would scream over and over "You are my slaves; You do what ever I tell you to do. When I tell you to jump the only thing I want to hear from you is 'how high?' ". This is really where my childhood migraines came from.  This cruelty and perpetual lack of safety, humiliation and shame.

 

2. I also saw it occur with young hispanic migrant children who worked with their parents.  This was generally rare, I think because my dad tried to hire those without children, but I did see it occasionally.   It made me cringe.. I always wondered? Why aren't those children in school, at least in the fall when I started back up in school--- I saw school as my only escape? .  If they didn't have school?  How could they escape? I also saw the ransacked, lead paint soaked place my dad put them up in.  It was actually little worse than what my siblings and I were living in, a broken down trailer...just 400 ft max away.  This lead soaked ransacked place was my grandpa's house, the place where grandma had died, which by this time was in absolute ruins. Only the number of people my dad and the "migrant worker master"  or whatever the name is could fit in there was truly astounding... I was always concerned at how many people they packed in that small house without running water (but our trailer didn't have running water either)... It was very confusing but that is how I think my concern for all this lack of humanity was born... I saw what they were going through.. I could totally relate and I was morally disturbed to the core.  

 

3. Cecilia, a restless wisp of a girl, heard the pitch and ached to go. Her stepfather had been murdered, forcing her, her mother and four younger siblings into her aunt’s tiny home, with just three beds for 10 people. It was all they had — and all a smuggler neededHe offered them a loan of $7,000 for Cecilia’s journey, with the property as a guarantee. “I gave him the original deed,” said Jacinta, her aunt, noting that the smuggler gave them a year to repay the loan, with interest. “I did it out of love.”

 

The trip lasted nearly a month, devolving from a journey of want and fear into an outright abduction by smugglers in the United States. Freedom came only after an extra $1,000 payment, made at a gas station in Fort Myers, Fla., as her kidnappers flashed a gun.

 

Now in Miami, Cecilia, 16, is one of more than 50,000 unaccompanied minors who have come to the United States illegally from Central America in less than a year. Though the number of new arrivals has been declining, the Obama administration says it is determined to “confront the smugglers of these unaccompanied children,” and the “cartels who tax or exploit them in their passage.”

 

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014...l?referrer=&_r=0

 

 

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