Iqbal Masih
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Iqbal Masih, (1982 - April 16, 1995), was a Pakistani boy who was sold to the carpet industry as a child slave at the age of 4 for the equivalent of 12 USD.
At the age of 10, he escaped the slavery and henceforth put effort into the liberation of other child slaves, and the struggle for freedom and rights for children in Pakistan.
He was murdered on Easter Sunday 1995. Five years later, when The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child was formed, he was posthumously awarded this prize as one of the first laureates.
External link
- A Bullet Can't Kill a Dream (http://www.mirrorimage.com/iqbal/who/who.html) — an account of the story of Iqbal Masih from an American point of view