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Iqbal Masih And The Plight Of Child Labourers

EDM number 1019 in 1994-95, proposed by Jimmy Wray on 21/04/1995.

That this House condemns the brutal murder of Iqbal Masih, a 12 year-old boy from Pakistan, who from the age of 4 years until he was 10 years, worked 10 hours a day weaving carpets while only earning one rupee a day under abysmal working conditions and eventually became an articulate and eloquent crusader on the plight of child labourers; and calls upon the Government to demonstrate its opposition to the exploitation of children by restricting the import of carpets made in Pakistan and all other countries where child labour is employed.

This motion has been signed by a total of 34 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
James Wray21/04/1995Glasgow ProvanProposed
Jimmy Dunnachie21/04/1995Glasgow, PollokSigned
Frank Field24/04/1995BirkenheadSigned
David Winnick24/04/1995Walsall NorthSigned
Robert Wareing24/04/1995Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Keith Vaz24/04/1995Leicester EastSigned
Harry Barnes24/04/1995North East DerbyshireSigned
Norman Godman24/04/1995Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Neil Gerrard24/04/1995WalthamstowSigned
Kenneth Eastham24/04/1995Manchester, BlackleySigned
Bill Michie24/04/1995Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Kim Howells24/04/1995PontypriddSigned
George Howarth24/04/1995Knowsley NorthSigned
Clive Soley24/04/1995HammersmithSigned
Llew Smith24/04/1995Blaenau GwentSigned
Dennis Skinner24/04/1995BolsoverSigned
Alan Meale25/04/1995MansfieldSigned
Alan Williams25/04/1995Swansea WestSigned
John Battle25/04/1995Leeds WestSigned
Angela Eagle25/04/1995WallaseySigned
Eric Clarke25/04/1995MidlothianSigned
Jeff Rooker25/04/1995Birmingham, Perry BarrSigned
Eddie Loyden26/04/1995Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Maria Fyfe26/04/1995Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Mike Hall26/04/1995Warrington SouthSigned
Colin Pickthall27/04/1995West LancashireSigned
Keith Bradley27/04/1995Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Roland Boyes28/04/1995Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Peter Hardy01/05/1995WentworthSigned
Gerry Steinberg01/05/1995Durham, City ofSigned
Jack Thompson02/05/1995WansbeckSigned
Robert Parry03/05/1995Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Terry Davis10/05/1995Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Glenda Jackson15/05/1995Hampstead & HighgateSigned

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