‘100 Million for 100 Million’ campaign launched in Dhaka
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi today urged youths of Bangladesh to stand beside the disadvantaged children and help them in education and protect from exploitation.
“You are very lucky. You have parents and teachers and you can go to school…but there are tens of millions who are deprived of healthcare, education and protection,” he said.
“Let us pledge to eliminate child labour and ensure education for all,” Satyarthi said at the launching of a global campaign “100 million for 100 million” at Saint Joseph Higher Secondary School in Dhaka.
The Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE) organised the programme that brought together several hundred school students, lawmakers, educationists and development activists.
They chanted together: “We will build our future.”
Right now there are more than 100 million child labourers in the world of which more than 5 million children are in slavery. More than 100 million children are out of school and a staggering 2 million children have been killed in conflict over the last 10 years, according to the campaign documents.
“Children have not created wars, boundaries or walls. The adults have done these,” Satyarthi said, noting of the refugee children and their deprivation.
“Despite all the global progress we have seen, these are the world’s forgotten youth. It is the 21st century and there is no excuse to let this carry on,” said the Nobel Laureate, who won the Nobel Peace Prize with Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai in 2014.
Satyarthi, children’s rights and education advocate from India, said the future will be better for all if every child grows up protected from violence and learning in school not working to survive.
“We aim to support the largest youth mobilisation in history, standing together to change the future so that every child has a chance in life,” he said.
“You are very lucky. You have parents and teachers and you can go to school…but there are tens of millions who are deprived of healthcare, education and protection,” he said.
“Let us pledge to eliminate child labour and ensure education for all,” Satyarthi said at the launching of a global campaign “100 million for 100 million” at Saint Joseph Higher Secondary School in Dhaka.
The Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE) organised the programme that brought together several hundred school students, lawmakers, educationists and development activists.
They chanted together: “We will build our future.”
Right now there are more than 100 million child labourers in the world of which more than 5 million children are in slavery. More than 100 million children are out of school and a staggering 2 million children have been killed in conflict over the last 10 years, according to the campaign documents.
“Children have not created wars, boundaries or walls. The adults have done these,” Satyarthi said, noting of the refugee children and their deprivation.
“Despite all the global progress we have seen, these are the world’s forgotten youth. It is the 21st century and there is no excuse to let this carry on,” said the Nobel Laureate, who won the Nobel Peace Prize with Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai in 2014.
Satyarthi, children’s rights and education advocate from India, said the future will be better for all if every child grows up protected from violence and learning in school not working to survive.
“We aim to support the largest youth mobilisation in history, standing together to change the future so that every child has a chance in life,” he said.
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