Mr Satyarthi has been a tireless advocate of children’s rights for over three decades. Satyarthi is the founder of the grassroots movement Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement) and in the past four decades, has liberated more than 110,000 children from labour, trafficking and slavery and developed a successful model for their education and rehabilitation. Mr Satyarthi has been the architect of the single largest civil society network for the most exploited children, the Global March Against Child Labour, whose mobilization of unions, civil society and most importantly, children, led to the adoption of ILO Convention 182 on the worst forms of child labour in 1999.

He is also the founding president of both the Global Campaign for Education, an exemplar civil society movement working to end the global education crisis and GoodWeave International an organisation for raising consumer awareness and positive action in the carpet industry. In 2014, Mr Satyarthi was awarded the Nobel Peace prize alongside Malala Yousafzai, "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people for the right of all children to education."