Will for children

Before I began to work for the rights of children, I constantly found myself struggling with a ‘why’. why are some children born to work at the cost of their freedom and childhood? Why do the economic conditions of parents determine a child’s education and future? Why are we employing children of the poor to make clothes and toys for children of the better-off? My articles published in the 1980s helped raise critical questions on child labour, trafficking of children, sexual exploitation, the lack of education, and more. This compilation of articles has contributed towards laying the theoretical foundation and created a mass movement for the rights of children. Over the past 36 years, this movement has led to the establishment of institutions of governance, National and transnational policies for the protection of children, and the main streaming of child rights on the global development agenda. As you have picked up this book, It is my sincere hope that you will exercise your right to ask questions and your will to help the children of the world.
—kailash Satyarthi