Ehsan Ullah Khan

Muhammad Ehsan Ullah Khan (born in Gwadar, Balochistan, February 9, 1947) is the founder of the Bonded Labour Liberation Front (BLLF) of Pakistan, an organization that has freed more than 100,000 slaves in that 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 murder brought to light the work of campaigners against forced child labour.

Khan has raised slavery issues in the United Nations, through the Working Group for Contemporary Forms of Slavery and in the International Labour Organization (ILO). Provided by Wikipedia