page_title: Iqbal Masih
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Iqbal Masih / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Eshan Ullah Khan visits the Iqbal Masih Square in Santiago de Compostela.
context_page_description: Iqbal Masih was a Pakistani Christian boy who became a symbol of abusive child labour in Pakistan.
context_section_description: Iqbal's cause inspired the creation of organizations such as Free The Children, a Canada-based charity and youth movement, and the Iqbal Masih Shaheed Children Foundation, which has started over 20 schools in Pakistan.
  In 1994, Iqbal visited Broad Meadows Middle School in Quincy, Massachusetts, and spoke to 7th graders about his life. Inspired the famous afterschool program run by teacher Ronald Adams called ODW.  When the students learned of his death, they decided to raise money with a financially productive program called "Penny Power",and build a school in his honor in Kasur, Pakistan.
  Iqbal's story was depicted in a book entitled Iqbal by Francesco D'Adamo, a fictional story based on true events, from the point of view of a girl named Fatima.
  In 1994 he received the Reebok Youth in Action Award.
  In 1996 the Movimiento Cultural Cristiano (MCC- Christian Cultural Movement) and Camino Juvenil Solidario (CJS- Youth Solidarity Path) promoted the 16 of April as International Day against Child Slavery in Spain and South America
  In 1998 the newly formed Istituto Comprensivo Iqbal Masih, a comprehensive education institute comprising several schools in Trieste, Italy, was named after him.
  In 2000 he received a posthumous World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child and the Piazzale dei Traghetti Iqbal Masih was inaugurated in Genoa, Italy.
  The 2006 book The Little Hero: One Boy's Fight for Freedom tells the story of his legacy.
  In 2009 the United States Congress established the annual Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor.
  On 16 April 2012, the Council of Santiago, after a proposal of Movimiento Cultural Cristiano, inaugurates a Square named after Iqbal in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
  The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to children's rights advocate Kailash Satyarthi on grounds of prevention of child labour and female education. Satyarthi mentioned Masih in his Nobel Peace Prize award speech, dedicating it to him and other "martyrs".
  In 2016, the "X Iqbal Masih Rugby Tournament" was held in Catania, Sicily.
  On 17 April 2017, the University of Salamanca committed itself to celebrate every 16 April as a Day Against Child Slavery on behalf of Iqbal Masih.
caption: Ehsan Ullah Khan visits the Iqbal Masih Square in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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