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 ...

During the dry winter months in Bangladesh, thousands of workers shovel millions of tons of coal into kilns across the country. As columns of hand-packed bricks bake and harden, dark plumes of smoke ...

As the wave of urbanization takes the country in its grip, industrial activity has observed an exponential growth, with new housing societies and apartment complexes springing up at every nook and ...

Unauthorized brick kilns are rapidly expanding in remote areas of Khulna division, posing a serious threat to both the environment and public health. Although the Department of Environment (DoE) ...

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.