Iqbal Masih

(b. 1982 - April 16, 1995), 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 chain to a carpet loom in a small town called Muridke near Lahore. He was made to work sixteen 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. At the age of 10, he escaped the 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 Pakistan children that were in bonded labour, escape to freedom. Iqbal gave talks about child labor all round 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 labor industry.

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.