Apathy biggest bar to ending child slavery: Nobel prize winner

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Satyarthi speaks during a news conference in OsloBy Balazs Koranyi OSLO (Reuters) – Apathy is the biggest obstacle to eliminating forced child labor and the world needs more secular education to reduce intolerance, Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi said on Tuesday. In Oslo, where he will receive the award on Wednesday, Satyarthi told Reuters the problem was not religion itself but people who hide behind it for economic and political gain. "Education brings tolerance to societies, which brings peace, global brotherhood and mutual respect for each other," Satyarthi, 60, from India, said. …

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