Satyarthi, who had won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, had earlier said that human trafficking and child labour were amongst the largest sources of black money.
Satyarthi has waged a war on child labour and trafficking through his movement ‘Bachpan Bachao Andolan’. His NGO is credited with rescuing more than 80,000 enslaved children.
In five years, the NGO has rescued over 5,000 children across the country of which more than 2,000 were rescued from Delhi. Of these, nearly 3,000 children were below 14 years and 21 per cent of them were working with their families.
Further lamenting that there was no strict law in the country to fight human trafficking, he said, “The law should be victim- or survivor-friendly with a proper redressal mechanism.”
Last year, the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2016, which was cleared by the Parliament, inviting sharp criticism from Satyarthi. He had then said that the new law will open a back door for large number of children to enter the workforce and even calling the new bill a ‘missed opportunity’.
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(Sourced from agencies, feature image courtesy:oneindia.com)
