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Compassion is going to be the new culture of world and the youth is going to take it forward, Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Monday. Addressing the fourth 'Laureates and Leaders for Children' Conclave here, the Nobel prize recipient said his Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation had launched this movement to create a compassionate world for the children and help build a world without injustice and atrocities. "Today I dream of a world without exploitation, without injustice, without atrocities. I dream of an inclusive world. A world where we learn how to work together," he said. "My biggest trust lies in young people. Compassion is going to be the new culture of world. My young friends will take it forward. Hence, let us enlighten this path," the Nobel laureate said. "We are one humanity. We have one shared future and hence we launched this movement," he added. Former director general of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) R A Mashelkar, child ri
India is the mother of one billion solutions and should lead the globalisation of compassion, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi said at the inauguration of the Civil20 India 2023 inception conference here on Monday. C20 India 2023 is one of the official Engagement Groups of the G20 that provides a platform for Civil Society Organisations (CSO) around the world to voice people's aspirations to the world leaders of G20. The inauguration of the conference was attended by spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. More than 200 delegates from India and abroad will be attending the three-day conference. Speaking on the occasion, Satyarthi said India may be a land of 100 problems, but it is the mother of one billion solutions. The C20 is driven by the core values of spirituality and it does not mean any religion. It is the driving force soul of humanity, he said. Satyarthi expressed concerns that out of a
Assam government's decision to eliminate child marriage by penalising the perpetrators was a welcome step but the state must provide financial assistance, legal support and rehabilitation to the victims, the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation said on Wednesday. The government should immediately provide Rs 2,000 per month from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund as financial assistance to every girl whose husband has been arrested and until he gets bail, said the organisation founded by the social reformer who received the Nobel Peace prize in 2014. The state and district legal service authority should be directed to grant interim compensation within a week to all girls where the police have invoked sections under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO) along with sections of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act (PCMA), 2006, it added. Assistance should also be given to children born out of child marriages, the foundation's Managing Director Rahul Kumar .