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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

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:TheTrumpeterAward (US)
 1993: Elected Ashoka Fellow (US)

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, visitedYousafzai 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 Time magazine 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 Mendez
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