Ehsan Ullah Khan

Muhammad Ehsan Ullah Khan was born in Gwadar, Balochistan on February 9, 1947. He is the founder of the Bonded Labour Liberation Front (BLLF) in Pakistan, an organization that has freed more than 100,000 slaves in the country.

Khan was the founder and president of the Brick Kiln Workers Front and BLLF Global, a human rights organization that opposes slavery and child slavery in Pakistan and South Asia. He is the national coordinator of Global March in Sweden.

In 1992, he freed Iqbal Masih, who was working in the carpet industry. On April 16, 1995, Iqbal was assassinated. His death raised awareness of the work of campaigners against forced child labor.

He raised issues of slavery at the United Nations, through the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, and at the International Labour Organization (ILO). Provided by Wikipedia