http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6164134.stm
An almost good story. It would have made the neolib blotter of India Shining moments, I am sure, if only young Om had gone on to become a systems analyst at Infosys Technologies! ;-)
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> Indian boy wins world peace prize
>
> A 14-year-old Indian boy has been awarded the International
> Children's Peace Prize for leading a campaign against child labour
> and child slavery.
>
> Om Prakash was forced to work as a farm labourer for three years.
>
> After he was rescued, Om set up a network that aims to give all
> children a birth certificate as a way of helping to protect them from
> exploitation.
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> Om was awarded the $100,000 (£53,000) prize organised by a
> Netherlands-based group at a ceremony in The Hague.
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> Om suffered the fate of millions of children. At the age of five, he
> was taken away from his parents and for three years he worked in the
> fields.
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> He was given two meals a day, was regularly beaten and never paid.
>
> <...>
>
--ravi