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	Iqbal Masih (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Iqbal thrived and learned, and eventually joined the BLLF as an advocate for Pakistan's 12 million bonded children laborers.
		Although sickly and small in stature, Iqbal was intelligent and he was brave.
		Iqbal became an international hero and his calls for the boycott of Pakistani carpets began to have an effect.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Heroes/Iqbal_Masih.html (448 words)

	The My Hero Project - Iqbal Masih
		Iqbal Masih was born in Pakistan in 1982; he lived in Muridke near Lahore.
		Iqbal was sold into slavery at a carpet factory at age four and worked on looms till the age of 10.
		Iqbal is one of my heroes because it takes a lot of guts to stand up to such powerful people and to speak out against evil.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=Iqbal (905 words)

	CWA \| CWA - Resources : Newsletters : vol. 11 no. 1 (1995)
		Iqbal Masih, aged 12, who was shot and killed on April 16, 1995, was an ex-bonded labourer and a vocal campaigner for the rights of children in Pakistan.
		Iqbal refused to return to the carpet factory, contacted a BLLF lawyer and obtained a letter of freedom.
		Iqbal was awarded a scholarship in America, for further education when he finished school in Pakistan.
	www.cwa.tnet.co.th /Publications/Newsletters/vol11_1/v11_1_masih.html (261 words)

	A Bullet Can't Kill a Dream - Who Was Iqbal? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Iqbal Masih was four years old when his father sold him into slavery.
		Iqbal was moved to give an impromptu and eloquent speech about his sufferings which was printed in the local papers.
		Iqbal was an articulate, confident, and powerful speaker and an uncompromising critic of child servitude.
	www.mirrorimage.com /iqbal/who/who.html (344 words)

	Children's Rights - OzSpirit
		Iqbal Masih was born to a very poor family in a village in Pakistan.
		Iqbal Masih knew that what he was hearing was something that he had always instinctively known: that children were not meant to be treated with less dignity than adults just because they were smaller.
		Iqbal Masih's enemies were also listening and they hated what he was saying and what his words were doing to the carpet industry and other places where children were kept in bonded labour.
	www.cathnews.com /ozspirit/2002/29bg.html (1099 words)

	Pakistani Carpet Weaver's Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The death of Iqbal Masih is steeped in controversy and his blood is on many hands, not just those of the deranged farm worker who killed him in a brawl.
		Ehsan Ullah Khan of the BLLF of which Iqbal was the President of the children's wing, claimed "We know that his death was a conspiracy by the carpet mafia." He also stated that a labourer had been arrested in connection with the shooting.
		Iqbal had allegedly received several death threats from the powerful people in the carpet weaving industry, who were angered by his outspoken opposition to child labour.
	pangaea.org /street_children/asia/lahore2.htm (585 words)

	WCPRC - Iqbal
		Iqbal Masih was a bonded-debt-slave in Pakistan and one of 250 million working children in the world.
		The journey begins in his birth village and ends in the city of Lahore, where Iqbal lived before he was murdered at 13 years old.
		Iqbal was shot and killed by people who felt threatened by his struggle for the rights of the child and opposition to debt slavery.
	www.childrensworld.org /page.html?pid=53 (232 words)

	Individuals Make a Difference: Pakistan
		Iqbal Masih is known to most people in Pakistan as a campaigner for the rights of children.
		Iqbal Masih was born in Muridke, near Lahore in Pakistan.
		Iqbal's family were threatened over their non-payment of the debt and were forced to leave Lahore.
	www.asiaeducation.edu.au /voices/citizen/citstud1.htm (745 words)

	Front Page
		Iqbal and two cousins were taking supper to a relative working in a nearby field when it happened.
		Iqbal's cousins and mother, members of Pakistan's impoverished Christian minority, fled for their lives to the protection of the organization Iqbal had served and which two years ago had liberated him, the Bonded Labor Liberation Front of Pakistan (BLLF-P).
		It is not accidental that Iqbal Masih was a Christian, although there is no evidence of any religious element in his killing.
	www.laborrights.org /publications/iqbal.htm (1325 words)

	Iqbal's death - Iqbal Masih - Column - Obituary Christian Century - Find Articles
		AFTER BEING chained to a carpet loom for half his life, Iqbal Masih is dead at the age of 12.
		Iqbal's cousins and mother, members of Pakistan's impoverished Christian minority, fled for their lives to the protection of the Bonded Labor Liberation Front of Pakistan (BLLF-P), the organization that had liberated him two years ago.
		Iqbal's cousins gave an initial statement to the police, but when they were safely under the protection of the BLLF they issued a statement saying they had spoken under duress and denied that account.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n18_v112/ai_16997237 (711 words)

	Iqbal Masih - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iqbal was held by a chain to a carpet loom in a small town called Muridke near Lahore.
		At twelve years of age, Iqbal was the size of a six-year old.
		Masih's work and subsequent death inspired the then 12 year old Canadian boy, Craig Kielburger to devote his life to the boy's cause and organized Free the Children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iqbal_Masih (277 words)

	For Teen Workers and Students
		Twelve years old and one of the mightiest voices in Pakistan against child labor, Iqbal was a compelling survivor of slavery in Pakistan's carpet industry.
		Iqbal's slavery is not unusual in a country where estimates of bonded child labor run as high as eight million.
		Iqbal Masih was shot to death in Muritke, Pakistan on April 16, 1995.
	www.stopchildlabor.org /teensandstudents/iqbal.htm (524 words)

	Johns Hopkins University Press \| Journals \| The Lion and the Unicorn \|
		The development of the mythology of Iqbal Masih must be considered in relation to the rise of an international antichild labor discourse and the concomitant development of international laws limiting child labor.
		The pattern of Masih's story that appears in the press and in these works of nonfiction is almost always the same: it recounts Masih's slavery, his emancipation, his work to deliver other enslaved children, his death—a sort of martyrdom—and his role as an inspiration to children to join the "crusade" against child labor.
		At age twelve Masih was the height of an average six-year-old, a peculiarity emphasized in the mythology.
	www.press.jhu.edu /journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/sample.html (6084 words)

	papertigers \| book reviews
		Susan Kuklin has written a consciousness-raiser and a call to action for young readers as she tells the story of one of these laborers, Iqbal Masih.
		Iqbal was sold into bondage at age 4 and freed at age 10 by the actions of Pakistani activists calling for enforcement of laws to free children in bondage.
		She offers inspiration for activism by chronicling the efforts of students at a Massachusetts middle school where Iqbal visited in their efforts to raise awareness about products made with child labor and to support the ongoing work of activists in Pakistan to free and educate child laborers.
	www.papertigers.org /reviews/USA/ccbc/Iqbal.html (361 words)

	Reebok Human Rights Youth In Action Award 95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Iqbal shocked and outraged the students as he recalled how he was sold into slavery at the age of 4.
		The campaign, "A School for Iqbal", was created to raise money to build a school for Pakistani children, a dream Iqbal shared with the students during his visit to the school.
		The "A School for Iqbal" campaign invites students at other schools to donate $12, a symbolic figure because Iqbal was 12 when he died and was sold into slavery for $12.
	www.amnesty133.org /iqbal/reebok/reebokaward.html (746 words)

	Epitaphe pour Iqbal Masih (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In autumn 1994 I had seen a TV documentary about child-slavery in Pakistan, and was deeply affected by it, especially the depiction of twelve-year-old Iqbal Masih’s struggle for the children’s rights and freedom.
		It was this quiet mourning at a distance that gave rise to Epitaphe pour Iqbal Masih.
		Epitaphe pour Iqbal Masih was commissioned by GMEB in France and composed in studio Circé and Charybde at GMEB in 1995.
	www.rien.qc.ca /oeuvre.e/1194.html (175 words)

	Black Looks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Iqbal Masih was a Pakistani boy sold into slavery at the age of 4 and made to squat for hours on end weaving carpets.
		The killers have not been caught but it is thought they are part of the "carpet mafia" whose business Iqbal threatened through his exposure of the use of child labour.
		Iqbal Masih represents the millions of children still sold into slavery in the 21st Century for commercial and domestic labour and for sex.
	www.blacklooks.org /category/corporate_violence (960 words)

	The My Hero Project - Iqbal Masih
		Iqbal Masih was a Pakistani boy, living life in a nightmare.
		Iqbal had really suffered at the loom and he refused to go back.
		Iqbal Masih Read another MY HERO story about Iqbal.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=Iqbal_foresthills_MS_06 (992 words)

	Iqbal Masih
		But I stick to the facts and the fact is that Iqbal Masih was a human being.
		Iqbal's dreaming days were over, and he had a nightmare.
		Iqbal: I am one of those millions of children who are suffering in Pakistan through bonded labor and child labor, but I am luck that I go out in freedom.
	www.gis.net /~puppetco/103.htm (1979 words)

	The Kids Hall of Fame
		At age 4, Iqbal Masih was sold to a carpet factory owner for 600 rupees - about $12.
		Iqbal gave an impromptu speech at that meeting which was published in local newspapers.
		Iqbal's bravery helped to free many kids, but speaking out cost him his life.
	thekidshalloffame.com /CustomPage26.html (1315 words)

	Iqbal Masih
		The two communities, the children and parents of Pandowal Bala village, the children of the Iqbal Masih school of Rome have kept in touch by means of interviews realized in both settings, filmed and reproducted as a means of cultural exchange.
		The events,two interviews to the children (around 20 children in Rome, around 5 children in Pakistan)who were asked to communicate to their friends about their likings about school, about food, about the future choice of a job, have taken place in the month of May 2004, both in Rome and in Pakistan.
		As far as the Iqbal Masih school in Rome is concerned, it is around 1000 children with their parents.
	utenti.romascuola.net /126/Indexenglish.htm (997 words)

	Human Rights Education: The 4th R, Working for Children's Rights, vol. 7 No. 2, Fall 1996.
		In December, 1994, Iqbal Masih of Pakistan, age 12, traveled to Boston, Massachusetts to receive the Reebok Youth in Action Award.
		One year after Iqbal's death these students are proud no say that they have kept Iqbal's ideas alive and are fulfilling his dream of a school for bonded children.
		Iqbal was sold at age four for the equivalent of twelve U.S. dollars.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/education/4thR-F96/WorkingforChildrensRights.htm (1038 words)

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		On Sunday April 16, 1995, Iqbal was shot dead while he and two friends were riding their bikes in their village of Muritke, 35 kilometres outside the eastern city of Lahore.
		Iqbal was home from school in Lahore for the easter holiday.
		Khan said Iqbal’s campaign against child labor had led to the closing of dozens of carpet-weaving factories in his district.
	www3.ac-clermont.fr /pedago/anglaislp/ressources/doc/iqbal.doc (680 words)

	Amazon.fr : Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery: Livres en anglais: Susan Kuklin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But the most colorful figure is Iqbal Masih, who at the age of 10 escaped from a carpet factory to become an articulate spokesperson.
		His death by shooting in 1995, on a return visit to Pakistan, ended his brief life but underscored the importance of the issue of child labor in the modern world.
		Readers will relate to Kuklin's outrage about Iqbal and also about the suffering of bonded children everywhere and the global markets that benefit from family poverty and illiteracy.
	www.amazon.fr /Masih-Crusaders-Against-Child-Slavery/dp/0805054596 (638 words)

	Amazon.com: Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery: Books: Susan Kuklin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery by Susan Kuklin
		Iqbal Masih had been a child slave in a Pakastani carpet factory.
		Masih was a remarkable boy who lived a very full, inspirational life in a tragically short life spand of only twelve years.
	www.amazon.com /Iqbal-Masih-Crusaders-Against-Slavery/dp/0805054596 (1594 words)

	Iqbal's fight - former bonded worker fights against child labor in Pakistan Current Events - Find Articles
		At age 4, Iqbal Masih (IK-bal MA-see) was given to a carpet master as a bonded worker.
		He was literally chained to a carpet loom for 6 years and paid 3 cents per day until he was rescued in 1994.
		Iqbal's courageous stand soon attracted attention outside Pakistan.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_n1_v96/ai_18655947 (265 words)

	Iqbal Masih and Craig Kielburger: children against child labour
		When Iqbal Masih was four years old, his father sold him to a carpet weaver for $12.
		Craig Keilburger was also 12 years old when Iqbal Masih was killed.
		I could imagine Iqbal, I could imagine his dreams were the same - the article said that he wanted to become a lawyer and how he hoped to use that to free children.
	www.newint.org /easier-english/child_labour/iqbal.html (997 words)

	PakistaniAviation.com
		This website is dedicated to & salutes the work of Iqbal Masih, a 12-year-old boy who was an ex-child carpet weaver turned a young activist, who was campaigning against the exploitation of child labour in Pakistan.
		On December 2, 1994, when Iqbal visited the Broad Meadows Middle School (U.S.A), he looked much younger than his twelve years: his growth had been stunted by severe malnutrition and years of cramped immobility in front of a loom.
		Iqbal was sold into Child bonded labor at 4 years of age for the equivalent of $12
	www.pakistaniaviation.com /iqbalmasih.htm (540 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Iqbal Masih was sold into child bonded labour at 4 years old for the equivalent of $12.
		He escaped at age 10 and began to speak out around the world against child slavery and for freedom and schools for all Pakistani children.
		Iqbal won the Reebok Human Rights Youth in Action Award 1994, but on Easter Sunday, 1995, he was murdered.
	www.crwrc.org /dip/iqbal.htm (86 words)

	Iqbal Masih: Child Hero
		Iqbal Masih was a former slave carpet weaver since the age of 5.
		He became a child activist after he escaped from slavery.
		The text on any page may be reproduced provided that the source is acknowledged.
	www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com /iqbalmasih.htm (65 words)

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