


Brick Kiln slavery in Pakistan:
In Pakistan, the brick manufacturing industry thrives on unpaid labour using debt as a way to lure people to work for factory owners.They provide loans in exchange for employment. But once they’re fully paid, factory owners keep them against their will and use their desperation to convince them that their labour has not yet matched the value of their loan, adding interest month by month.
Human Rights Watch has condemned the practice and says the problem of debt-bondage in Pakistan is one of the worst to be assessed.

The days are long and arduous




A sign in Urdu designating the area 'the brick making colony'



The amount of labour carried out by workers makes clear that they're pushed too hard

Working conditions are violated by site owners:
Bricks are made in many ways but usually by hand by younger workers under an intense heat which blazes throughout the year and worse in the southern regions such as Sindh province. As a consequence, site owners make workers toil throughout the night to avoid heat exhaustion, though this makes little difference during the summer season.










People of all ages are present on site. Labourers on the site are instructed to make their children work too





