She’s waged a tireless struggle since 1980 to get children, especially underprivileged ones, their rights.

Now, Bengaluru-based Nandana Reddy and her NGO Concerned for Working Children may be finally about to get their due — the Nobel Peace Prize, no less. CWC has been nominated for the Prize for 2012 by three Norwegian MPs.

In their letter to the Nobel Committee, the three — Linda Hofstad Helleland, Gunn Karin Gjul and André Oktay Dahlt — said: “Since 1980, Concerned for Working Children (CWC) has contributed to several initiatives with such children’s rights organisations as Bhima Sangha and Makkala Panchayats (children’s councils)… to strengthen the influence of children. Few, if any, local organisations elsewhere have contributed as much to this work.”

The CWC has been nominated along with ‘Save the Children’ and the United Nations Children’s Fund.

Ms. Reddy, founder-member of CWC, said that the nomination is a “recognition of children’s right to determine the course of their lives, more so, the rights of the underprivileged children, who have no voice. It’s been a long journey since 1985, when we went to the government with a draft bill against child labour”.