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Kailash Satyarthi and the Global March Against Child Labour receives the 25th International Alfonso Comin Award |
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 Kailash Satyarthi, received this award for his unique efforts to end child labour, condemning systems that require children to work, both at the global, national and regional levels, and exerting pressure to achieve political changes and jointly developing policies and actions to achieve a unified response to child labour, illiteracy and poverty.
The 25th International Alfonso Comín price-giving ceremony took place on 18th November 2008 in Barcelona, Spain. Ignacio Ramonet, Director of Le Monde Diplomatique Chief Guest of the ceremony said that there are 218 million children who are being exploited trafficked as child soldiers, child labour, prostitutes across the world but yet there are people like Kailash Satyarthi who are building this hope and who are there to acknowledge the problem and have shown the solution to world that the change is possible. This award is an effort to highlight such efforts.
Read the full article on the Global March website |
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