Kailash Satyarthi

In 1998, when 14-year-old Khokon from Bangladesh led the Global March against Child Labour from the front, he became the face of the revolution to end child labour around the world, and the voice of millions of his brothers and sisters across the world that remained unseen and voiceless.

It is a blot on the face of humanity that we have yet to eradicate slavery – of children, no less. Not only does child slavery persist...