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Kailash Satyarthi

Kailash Satyarthi

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Kailash Satyarthi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is the founder of Laureates and Leaders for Children, Honorary President of the Global March Against Child Labor, and the founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement).

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  1. The Appalling Increase in Child Labor
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    The Appalling Increase in Child Labor

    Jun 29, 2021 Kailash Satyarthi urges rich countries to strengthen social protection for the world's most marginalized children.

  2. Protecting Refugee Children During the Pandemic
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    Protecting Refugee Children During the Pandemic

    Jul 16, 2020 Kailash Satyarthi & Prince Ali bin Hussein urge governments to channel more COVID-19 rescue funds toward some of the world's most vulnerable people.

  3. What Real Pandemic Aid Would Look Like
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    What Real Pandemic Aid Would Look Like

    May 6, 2020 Kailash Satyarthi calls for 20% of the funds committed to mitigating the COVID-19 crisis to go to the poorest 20% of humanity.

  4. Combating Child Labor in Global Supply Chains
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    Combating Child Labor in Global Supply Chains

    Jan 23, 2020 Kailash Satyarthi explains what governments, corporations, and civil society can do to end the practice once and for all.

  5. Protecting Children Is the Key to Sustainability
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    Protecting Children Is the Key to Sustainability

    Sep 23, 2019 Kailash Satyarthi urges world leaders to refocus on the child-centered goals in the United Nations' 2030 Agenda.

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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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