When was iqbal masih

This page outlines the eligibility criteria, the nomination process and the administrative procedures for this year's award. Iqbal Masih. The Iqbal Masih Award was named after a Pakistani child who was sold into slavery as a carpet weaver at age 4, escaped at 10 and became an outspoken public advocate against child exploitation. In he received the Reebok Human Rights Award. He was tragically killed a year later at the age of 12 in his native Pakistan.

The purpose of the award is to recognize exceptional efforts to reduce the worst forms of child labor—in view of inspiring and motivating others working toward this end.

The award's two major goals are:. The award was created in response to Senate Committee direction that the Secretary of Labor "establish an annual non-monetary award recognizing the extraordinary efforts by an individual, company, organization or national government toward the reduction of the worst forms of child labor.

You may nominate an individual, a company, an organization, or a national government. To submit a nomination, you must be either the nominee or another person or entity acting with the knowledge and permission of the nominee. Note that prior receipt of this award will not preclude a nominee from being considered for the Iqbal Masih Award in subsequent years.

However, specific accomplishments that served as the basis of a prior award may not be considered as the basis for a subsequent award application. The U. Department of Labor will also consider nominees from the past five years that were deemed responsive but not yet selected for award.

You may in such cases submit updated nomination packages for previous nominees. Nomination packages should be limited to information relevant to the nominee and should be no longer than two 2 typed pages double-spaced.

A page is 8. Anyone who knew Iqbal Masih, the year-old boy recently assassinated in Lahore, Pakistan, by someone believed to be a feudal landlord and carpet manufacturer, was struck by his brilliance. He went through five years of school curriculum in three. Although malnutrition and abuse left him, at the age of 12, physically smaller and more frail than my nine-year-old daughter, it was clear that his mind, his ambition, and his spirit burned brightly.

When I saw him last December in Karachi on his return from the United States, where he received a Reebok Human Rights Award, he was filled with the excitement of his first airplane ride, a new Instamatic camera, his visit with other schoolchildren in Boston, and the unimaginable promise that one day he might attend a university.

Brandeis University had pledged to give a four-year scholarship to Iqbal when he finished his studies in Pakistan. Then someone motivated by greed, by fear, by hatred, pulled the trigger of a shotgun and obliterated this promise. The BLLF has worked dauntlessly for years to free thousands of bonded and child laborers, Iqbal among them. After working six years at a carpet loom, starting at the age of four, Iqbal was rescued by the BLLF when he was Last December he told me that one day two years ago in the village where he was enslaved as a carpet weaver, he saw BLLF posters declaring that bonded and child labor was illegal under Pakistan law and secretly contacted BLLF activists.

He exposed the carpet mafia, urging the world not to buy carpets made by slave children. Though stunted and hunched from 6 years of malnutrition and slavery under inhuman conditions, Iqbal helped over 3, Pakistani children escape their bonded slavery and made speeches about child labour throughout the world. He was assassinated on April 16 , allegedly by the carpet mafia, after receiving many threats for having closed companies that used child slaves.

According to the Christian Cultural Movement, there are million enslaved children between 4 and 14 years old around the world, million are under 5 years of age today. Wars, prostitution, labour exploitation, starvation, ill-treatment… are the normal day for millions of children around the world.