What we just saw was the logo of GoodWeave, an international

Not-for-profit organisation launched by Kailash Satyarthi in

1994. GoodWeave provides a certification program that allows

companies that pass inspection to attach a logo certifying that

their product is made without child labour. Responding to

concern about violation of children’s rights during the

1980s, human rights organizations in Europe and India, along

with UNICEF and the Indo-German Export Promotion Council, a

German government agency, developed the program to provide

assurance to consumers that the carpets they were purchasing

were made by adults rather than exploited children, and to

provide for the long term educational and rehabilitation of

children found working illegally on looms. The program was

inaugurated in India in the fall of 1994. Thereafter, negotiations

with programs in Germany, Nepal, India, and the U.S. resulted in

the formal creation of Rugmark International.

Bachpan Bachao Andolan is an India-based movement campaigning for the rights of children. Started in 1980 by Kailash Satyarthi. Its focus has centred on ending bonded labour, child labour and human trafficking, as well as demanding the right to education for all children.

Child labour has been socially accepted and widely practised in the region for generations, being seen as a necessary outcome of poverty. BBA became the first organization in India to highlight the issue and spawned the wider South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS).

What does BBA do???

Prevention is encouraged through community

intervention. The BBA's Child Friendly Village program,

has been accepted as a best practice model for

development and elimination of child labour and

trafficking. This program recognises those villages

where child labour no longer exists, all children are

enrolled in school and they have access to their own

public assembly that is officially recognised by the

elected village council.

Protection: where possible, the Indian legislative

provisions are used to restrain and eliminate the

practices of child labour and trafficking, and

campaigns for tightening and developing the legislation

are pursued. BBA works to recover fines from

employers and traffickers.

Rehabilitation: BBA tries to ensure that rehabilitation

remains the responsibility of the State. Statutory

Public Interest Litigations : BBA works on policy and legislative changes through effectively implementing the legal process and approaching the Supreme Court of India for making and enforcing policies in favour of children. This includes :

Upholding the Constitutional validity of Right to Education

Prohibition of employment of children in Circuses

Recovery of fines and cancellation/ sealing of establishments employing child labourers.

Protection of girls being trafficked through unregulated placement agencies.

BBA has led the largest civil society initiative in the world against child labour in the form of the Global March Against Child Labour in 1998, leading to ILO Convention 182 on Worst Forms of Child Labour.

One of the recent campaigns of BBA include:

Child Labour Free India Campaign

Right to Education Campaign

Child Domestic Labour campaign

Mukti Caravan (campaign against child trafficking for forced labour)

Missing Children Campaign

2014: Nobel Peace Prize 2009: Defenders of Democracy Award (US) 2008: Alfonso Comin International Award (Spain) 2007: Gold medal of the Italian Senate (2007) 2006: Freedom Award (US) 2002: Wallenberg Medal, awarded by

the University of Michigan 1998: Golden Flag Award (Netherlands) 1995: Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

Award (US) 1995: The Trumpeter Award (US) 1993: Elected Ashoka Fellow (US)

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Her rise to fame…..In late 2008, when Aamer Ahmed Khan of the BBC Urdu website and his colleagues had discussed a novel way of covering the Taliban’s growing influence in Swat: Why not find a schoolgirl to blog anonymously about her life there? Their correspondent in Peshawar, had been in touch with a local school teacher, Ziauddin Yousafzai, but couldn’t find any students willing to do it. At first, a girl named Aisha from her father's school agreed to write a diary, but then the girl's parents stopped her from doing it because they feared Taliban reprisals. Finally, Yousafzai suggested his own daughter, 11-year-old Malala. concerned about Yousafzai's safety, BBC editors insisted that she use a pseudonym. Her blog was published under the byline "Gul Makai" .

HER FAMOUS FIRST WORDS..

“I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taleban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taleban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools.”

-3rd Jan ‘09, Malala’s first blog post in the BBC

On 9 October 2012, a Taliban gunman shot Yousafzai as she rode home on a bus after taking an exam in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The masked gunman shouted "Which one of you is Malala? Speak up, otherwise I will shoot you all", and, on her being identified, shot at her. She was hit with one bullet, which went through her head, neck, and ended in her shoulder. Two other girls were also wounded in the shooting: Kainat Riaz and Shazia Ramzan, both of whom were stable enough to speak to reporters and provide details of the attack. Offers to treat Yousafzai came from around the world. On 15 October, Yousafzai travelled to the United Kingdom for further treatment, approved by both her doctors and family. she was treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.Yousafzai came out of her coma by 17 October 2012, was responding well to treatment, and was said to have a good chance of fully recovering without any brain damage. Later updates on 20 and 21 October stated that she was stable, but was still battling an infection. By 8 November, she was photographed sitting up in bed.On 3 January 2013, Yousafzai was discharged from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. She had a five-hour operation on 2 February to reconstruct her skull and restore her hearing, and was reported in stable condition. Since March 2013, she has been a pupil at the all-girls' Edgbaston High School in Birmingham.

United Nations Petition

On 15 October 2012, UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown, a former British Prime Minister, visited Yousafzai while she was in the hospital, and launched a petition in her name and "in support of what Malala fought for". Using the slogan "I am Malala", the petition's main demand was that there be no child left out of school by 2015, with the hope that "girls like Malala everywhere will soon be going to school". The petition contains three demands:

We call on Pakistan to agree to a plan to deliver education for every child.

We call on all countries to outlaw discrimination against girls.

We call on international organizations to ensure the world's 61 million out-of-school children are in education by the end of 2015.

On 12 July 2013, Yousafzai's 16th birthday, she spoke at the UN to call for worldwide access to education. The UN dubbed the event "Malala Day". It was her first public speech since the attack, leading the first ever Youth Takeover of the UN, with an audience of over 500 young education advocates from around the world.The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born ... I am not against anyone, neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group. I'm here to speak up for the right of education for every child. I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all terrorists and extremists.

Malala day is not my day. Today is the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who have raised their voice for their rights.

Reception at home has been somewhat more mixed. Dawn columnist Huma Yusuf summarized three main complaints of Yousafzai's critics: "Her fame highlights Pakistan’s most negative aspect (rampant militancy); her education campaign echoes Western agendas; and the West's admiration of her is hypocritical because it overlooks the plight of other innocent victims, like the casualties of U.S. drone strikes."Another Dawn journalist, Cyril Almeida, addressed the public's lack of rage against the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), blaming the failing state government. Journalist Assed Baig described her as being used to justify Western imperialism as "the perfect candidate for the white man to relieve his burden and save the native". Yousafzai was also accused on social media of being a CIA spy.

Awards and Honours…

(a select few ONLY)• 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Kailash

Satyarthi• 2011 National Youth Peace Prize• Sitara-e-Shujaat, Pakistan's third-highest civilian

bravery award, October 2012• 2012 Timemagazine Person of the Year shortlist• 2013 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought –

awarded by the European Parliament• 2013 Glamour magazine Woman of the Year• 2013 honorary Master of Arts degree awarded by

the University of Edinburgh

The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts,

between Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai "for their

struggle against the suppression of children and young people

and for the right of all children to education“. In a press

release, the Committee indicated that it had chosen the

combination of a Hindu and a Muslim, and of an Indian and

a Pakistani, on purpose, because they "join in a common

struggle for education and against extremism." They stressed

that "fraternity between nations" was one of the original

criteria stipulated by Alfred Nobel.

Thank you for spending your valuable time on my presentation. Hope it conveyed some information that will stay in your mind.

Denita MendezXI C