Bachpan Bachao Andolan

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Bachpan Bachao Andolan (South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude, or BBA) is a non-governmental organisation in India campaigning against child labour. It is a regional coalition representing individual members and more than 700 NGOs, human rights groups and trade unions. BBA organises direct action, rescuing child labourers in India. It is also a leader of the Global March Against Child Labour that started in 1998.

One of the child labourers rescued by BBA, Om Prakash, later won the 2006 International Children's Peace Prize.

BBA's chairperson is Kailash Satyarthi.

[edit] See also

• Bandhua Mukti Morcha, (Bonded Labour Liberation Front) - Indian NGO

[edit] External links

• 78 Child labourers rescued in Delhi, Hindustan Times, November 14, 2006
• Children against child labour, The Hindu, November 8, 2003
• BBA website
• Outline, Ashanet, USA