In Pakistan, families are forced to make over 1,500 bricks a day to repay loans from the kiln owners. However, they are not told how much they owe, how long they must work, or how much interest is ...

A laborer loads baked bricks into a cart at a brick kiln in Bath village near Lahore. (Photo: Kamran Chaudhry) In 2018, Rafiq Gulzar took a peshgi — an advance payment against labor — from a bhatta ...

KABUL, Afghanistan – Every day that Dil Agha works at his backbreaking job at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Afghanistan's capital Kabul, from before sunrise to well after sunset, he digs himself ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN: Only four out of 350 brick kilns have been converted to eco-friendly zigzag technology in the district, contrary to the claims of the officials who say that all kilns have been ...

Brick kilns in the eastern part of Bhaktapur district are posing serious threat to public health and nearby human settlements. As many as 63 brick kilns are located at Jhaukhel, Chaling, Sudal and ...

Ten-year-old boy Maharram came to work at a brick kiln in Dhamrai just one month ago. He will also have to work for the next five months—every day from 6 am to 8 pm, with only a short break for meals.

No new permit for brick kilns will be issued to reduce air pollution, Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Ministry of Water Resources said on ...

For these Cambodian workers, every brick they make is a step towards freedom from a lifetime of debt. Some NGO’s call this kind of “debt bondage” a modern form of slavery. They’re learning at a first ...

Soon, the brick kilns in Punjab would not operate during the winter seasons especially during October to January every year. The decision has been taken by Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) with a ...