18 September 2007, Tuesday, New Delhi: The Director of Office to Monitor Trafficking in Persons, Ambassador Mark P. Lagon and his colleagues meet with the brilliant and enthusiastic former child and child bonded labourers, who today are leading the fight against trafficking under the banner of Bachpan Bachao Andolan's (Save the Childhood Movement).

Amb. Lagon meet with exemplary children, who have not only transformed their lives as freed child labourers, but are the catalysts and leaders in the movement to end child labour and trafficking of children for forced labour. These include Om Prakash, 16-years-old boy, winner of International Children's Peace Prize winner 2006, was freed by Bachpan Bachao Andolan activists from debt bondage. Om Prakash lead to the filing of a complaint in Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission against school authorities who were taking extra money from children at school. Taking notice the Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission ordered schools to return the money taken from the poor children, making a precedent for the right to free and quality education. Another child activist was Deepak, 14-years-old, who hung physically on to the traffickers in a train and stopped the train to prevent them from trafficking young boys. While his friend Sunil was being thrashed by the traffickers, Deepak held on to the traffickers and raised a cry. Due to his efforts 5 traffickers (3 men and 2 women) were arrested at Raxual (Indo-Nepal border) and 9 children were saved from slavery.  

Rakesh Kumar, a former bonded child labourer, now jury member of the World Children's Prize for the Rights of the Children representing all child slaves and children who's births are not registered, Deepa, Seema, Babli, and many other former child domestic slaves also inspired the delegation lead by Amb. Lagon.

Amb. Lagon presented the certificate of the "2007 Hero in the Fight Against Modern-Day Slavery" for Mr. Kailash Satyarthi, founder of the Bachpan Bachao Andolan and an international child rights activist to these child leaders as a symbolic gesture. Mr. Satyarthi has been named a Hero in the Fight against Modern-Day Slavery, as a grassroots activist making elimination of child labour a global cause. Mr. Satyarthi has also freed all these children from slavery.

Speaking at a press meet, Amb. Lagon said that the phenomenon of trafficking for forced labour is fuelled by the greed and complicit officials citing the example of the employers mob attack on the Bachpan Bachao Andolan rehabilitation centre sheltering more than 100 child bonded labourers rescued from gold smithing in the May 2007. While lauding India's efforts in ending trafficking for sexual slavery, he emphasised that much was still needed on the front of bonded labour and forced labour.

Amb. Lagon and the delegation also planted trees in the compound of the Bachpan Bachao Andolan rehabilitation centre as a memoir of their visit.