Nobel Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi talks to Brut about the suprising reason children are now more vulnerable to child labour in India.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00Terrible floods are coming, and the families, the poor families are losing everything.
00:06And their children are easiest prey for trafficking, child marriages, child labor.
00:31I have freed a girl who was sold and resold.
00:35And when we freed her, she told that how her home, small home, and the livelihood were washed away in a flood.
00:47And then she was forced to come to Delhi to work.
00:52One journalist asked her that, now what do you think of your parents?
00:57Should you be punished? Why did they send you here?
01:01Then she said, no, my parents are not guilty.
01:05I don't know who is guilty, but I know that this flood was guilty.
01:27Ask your shopkeeper before you shop, before you buy anything.
01:39That you need a guarantee that it is free from child labor, that product.
01:45And that will help in creating demand for a child labor free good.
01:57I am hoping that by next year it will go in 100 countries.
02:18That is not just one go event.
02:21It is the involvement of millions of young people for a safe, free, and educated childhood for every child.
02:29So the 100 million campaign is trying to address the entire problem of exploitation and abuse of children.
02:52Thousands of these young people are messengers, activists, and they themselves are freeing other children.
03:03They themselves are stopping slavery and trafficking from their villages.
03:08I would say the reason to be hopeful and enthusiastic.