Nobel laureate defies attacks, death threats to continue fight to end child exploitation


Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): The man and his wife had been tricked into slavery and forced to work without pay for 17 years at a brick kiln in India's Punjab state. After he escaped from his captors, he asked Kailash Satyarthi to tell his story in a bid to save his daughter in 1981.

The 15-year-old girl was about to be sold into prostitution by the slave master who held the man's family captive.

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