Iqbal Still (Urdu: ???????? ?) is a Pakistani boy who became symbol of child labor torture in developing countries.
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Iqbal Masih was born in 1983 in Muridke, a commercial city outside Lahore in Punjab, Pakistan, into a poor Christian family. At the age of four, he was employed by his family to pay off their debts. The Iqbal family borrowed 600 rupees (less than $ 6.00 US) from a local employer who owns a carpet weaving business. In return, Iqbal was asked to work as a carpet weaver until the debt was paid off. Every day, he would wake up before dawn and walk in the dark village streets to the factory, where he and most other children are tied closely to the chain to the carpet to escape the escape. He will work 12 hours a day, seven days a week, with just a 30 minute break. He pays 10 dollars a day for the loan, but the loan continues to increase because of his family and interests.
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Escape and activism
At the age of 10, Iqbal fled from his enslavement, knowing that unlawful labor was declared illegal by the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He escapes and then goes to the police to report Arshad but the police simply take him back to Arshad, who tells the police to tie him upside down if he tries to escape again. Iqbal fled for the second time and he attended the Bonded Labor Liberation School (BLLF) for former slave children and quickly completed a four-year education in just two years. Iqbal helped more than 3,000 Pakistani children ally to flee to freedom and make speeches about child labor around the world.
He expressed a desire to become a lawyer to further equip him with a bond-free worker, and he began visiting other countries including Sweden and the United States to share his story, encouraging others to join in the struggle to eradicate child slavery.
In 1994, he received the Reebok Human Rights Award in Boston and in his acceptance speech he said: "I am one of the millions of children suffering in Pakistan through forced labor and child labor, but I am fortunate to the Negotiating Workers Release Negotiations BLLF), I am out in freedom I stand in front of you here today. After my freedom, I joined the BLLF School and I studied at that school now. For us, kid boys, Ehsan Ullah Khan and BLLF have done the job just as Abraham Lincoln did for American slaves. Today, you are free and I am free. "
Death
"Iqbal Masih, a brave and eloquent boy who attended several international conferences to denounce the difficulties of child weavers in Pakistan, was shot dead with a gun while he and some cycling friends in their village, Muridke, near Lahore".
Iqbal was shot dead by Ashraf Hero, a heroin addict, while visiting relatives in Muridke, Pakistan on April 16, 1995, Easter Sunday. He was 12 years old at the time. Her mother says she does not believe her son has been the victim of the plot by "carpet mafia". However, the Labor Liberation Front agreed not because Iqbal had received death threats from people connected to the Pakistani carpet industry.
His funeral was attended by about 800 mourners. Little Hero: One Boy's Fight for Freedom tells the story of his legacy.
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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