He was reaching for the comics one morning when he stumbled upon a tragic story, a 12-year-old, Iqbal Masih, has been killed on speaking about child labor rights. This was the fuel that started the ...

Almost thirty years ago, a boy named Iqbal Masih was shot dead near Lahore. He was twelve, the age most children should be in school, not running from factory owners and debt collectors. Iqbal had ...

The film is inspired, like the novel, by the true story of Iqbal Masih: he is sold for 16 dollars to a rug merchant and moneylender in Lahore, Pakistan. We have set the movie in Pandar, an imaginary ...

When Iqbal Masih was four, his parents sold him into slavery. For the next six years, he was shackled to a carpet-weaving loom most of the time, tying tiny knots hour after hour. By age 12, he was ...

Winter (Henri’s Scissors) continues her series of illustrated biographies with a two-in-one volume. One side memorializes Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy sold to the carpet industry to pay off his ...

Pakistan’s government has awarded one of its highest civilian awards to a Catholic carpet maker who was assassinated for advocating against child labor. President Arif Alvi conferred the ...