Want China Times, CNA 2014-10-11
Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi, one of the two winners of this year's Nobel peace prize, said on Friday he loves Taiwan and Taiwanese people, noting that hundreds of young Taiwanese volunteers have taken part in his cause to fight for children's rights.
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| Kailash Satyarthi. (Photo/CNA) |
Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi, one of the two winners of this year's Nobel peace prize, said on Friday he loves Taiwan and Taiwanese people, noting that hundreds of young Taiwanese volunteers have taken part in his cause to fight for children's rights.
Satyarthi
together with Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai have been selected to receive
this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian committee that chose the winners
announced Friday.
After
learning that he had won the prize, Satyarthi told CNA in New Delhi: "I
love Taiwan and Taiwanese, because there have been hundreds of Taiwanese boys
and girls coming to be our volunteers and work with us... They recognize me and
love me. We are brothers and sisters, which make me happy."
The
Norwegian committee cited both winners' "struggle against the suppression
of children and young people and for the right of all children to education."
Satyarthi
told the committee that winning the prize "will help in giving bigger
visibility to the cause of children who are most neglected and most
deprived."
"Everyone
must acknowledge and see that child slavery still exists in the world in its
ugliest face and form. And this is crime against humanity, this is intolerable,
this is unacceptable. And this must go," he added.
As for how
to act against child slavery, Satyarthi told CNA: "This is a global
problem. We have to fight together, common people, governments, judiciary
authority and enterprises should work and in hand and stand together."
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