Interview
with Kailash Satyarthi
Telephone interview with Kailash
Satyarthi following the announcement of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, 10 October
2014. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media.
[Kailash
Satyarthi] Hello.
[Adam
Smith] Hello, Mr Satyarthi?
[KS]
Speaking, hello.
[AS]
Hello, my name is Adam Smith calling from the Nobel Prize website in Stockholm.
Congratulations on the award of the Nobel Prize.
[KS]
Thank you so much, thank you very, very much. You have given the great honour
and the…[unclear]…to hundreds of millions of children in the world who are
deprived of their childhood and health and education, and fundamental right to
freedom. It is a great moment for all those children, and thank you very much
for that.
[AS]
Well, thank you.
[KS]
It is also a great honour for every Indian citizen, and I am really, really
thankful to all of you.
[AS]
That's very kind of you, thank you. What message do you hope that the Prize
award will deliver to the world?
[KS]
Well, I am quite hopeful and rather sure that this will help in giving bigger
visibility and attention to the cause of children who are most neglected and
most deprived. This will also inspire individuals, activists, governments,
business houses, corporate to work hand in hand to fight this out. And I am
quite hopeful about it, that the recognition of this issue will help in
mobilising bigger support for the cause.
[AS]
Marvellous. This will focus a lot of attention on your work. How can people
around the world help you with your mission?
[KS]
First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still
exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, which
is crime against humanity, which is intolerable, which is unacceptable and
which must go. That sense of recognition must be developed first of all. And
secondly there is a need of higher amounts of political will. There is a need
of higher amount of corporate engagement, and the engagement of the public
towards it. So, everybody has a responsibility to save and protect the children
on this planet.
[AS]
Thank you. And I suppose there is End Child Slavery Week coming up in November
so everybody can get…
[KS]
Of course. Yes, we are going to organise End Child Slavery Week from 19th
November to 25th November, and that would be an annual event which we would be
organising every year on different aspects of child slavery, and this year we
are demanding to the international community that the abolition of child
slavery must be incorporated into the post-millennium development goal or the
sustainable development goal. So that would be the emphasis of this year's End
Child Slavery Week.
[AS]
Thank you very much indeed for speaking to us, and again our congratulations on
the award of the Nobel Prize.
[KS]
Thank you once again on behalf of all my organisations whom I work with, all
the activists and all my fellow Indians.
[AS]
Thank you.
[KS]
Bye, bye. |
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