Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi's Fight to End Child Labor
How do we conceptualize the child and childhood today?
The recipients of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai, shed some light on this question.
Satyarthi is an Indian human rights activist who has fought decades to end child labor practices in India.
Malala Yousafzai is an activist who has fought for the rights of children, and girls in particular, to have en
education. Yousafzai is famous for having survived being shot in the head by a Taliban while on a school bus.
Check out this radio clip of an interview with Satyarthi from the radio program The Take Away. As you listen, be attentive to the interviewer's comments and responses to Satyarthi. What does their conversation reveal about our contemporary conception of the child and childhood? Post your response in a well-structured paragraph on the blog post below.
Works-cited citation
Hockenberry, John. "Nobel Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi's Fight to End Child Labor." The Take Away. WNYC
Radio and PRI, 22 January 2015. Web. 27 January 2015.
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