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Iqbal Masih 伊克巴尔·马薛

1982 – 1995

Iqbal Masih was a Pakistani boy who was sold to a carpet industry as a child slave at the age of 4 for the equivalent of (12) USD. Iqbal was held by a string to a carpet loom in a small town called Muridke near Lahore. He was made to work twelve hours per day. Due to long hours of hard work and insufficient food and care, Iqbal was undersized. At twelve years of age, Iqbal was the size of a six-year old boy. At the age of 10, he escaped the brutal slavery and later joined a Bonded Labor Liberation Front of Pakistan to help stop child labour around the world, and Iqbal helped over 3,000 Pakistani children that were in bonded labour, escape to freedom. Iqbal gave talks about child labour all around the world.

He was murdered on Easter Sunday 1995. It is assumed by many that he was assassinated by members of the “Carpet Mafia” because of the publicity he brought towards the child labour industry. Some locals were accused of the crime, however.

In 1994, Iqbal was awarded the Reebok Human Rights Award. In 2000, 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.

伊克巴尔·马薛是一名巴基斯坦男孩，4岁时被父亲以相当于12美元的价钱卖给一家地毯工厂当童工。在拉合尔市附近的Muridke小镇上，伊克巴尔被死死地锁在了织毯机上，他每天被迫工作12小时。由于长时间的重活和欠缺足够的食物与照顾，伊克巴尔比一般的孩子矮小。12岁时，他的身高只相当于一个6岁孩子的高度。10岁时，他从野蛮的奴役中逃了出来，接着参加了巴基斯坦抵债劳动自由阵线，帮助世界的禁止童工运动。伊克巴尔帮助超过3000名巴基斯坦抵债劳动的儿童重获自由，并在世界各地发表关于童工问题的演讲。

他在1995年复活节遭谋杀。由于他宣扬打击童工业，很多人猜想他是被“地毯黑帮”的成员所杀，然而一些当地人也被指控有罪。

1994年，伊克巴尔被授予锐步人权奖。2000年，儿童权利的国际儿童奖设立，作为其中一个获奖者，伊克巴尔在死后被授予了这一奖项。