With expanding cities, rising housing demand, and large-scale infrastructure projects, India is witnessing one of the world’s fastest construction booms. Under the government’s urban housing scheme, ...

Forced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access healthcare The phrase “khat rahein hain” (“being worn down”) is how Suma Devi describes her 16 ...

Workers loading unbaked bricks into a kiln. Researchers mapped brick kilns across India and used climate models to forecast the levels of heat stress workers face between now and 2050 “I work with ...

ALIGARH: In the scorching May heat, 12-year-old Rajni cradles her infant sister while stirring watery dal simmering in a soot-blackened aluminium pot outside her hut in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh ...

KABUL (ILO News) – A new report on bonded labour in Afghan brick kilns found more than half of the workers surveyed were children, with the majority of these workers under the age of 14. The survey, ...

CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Families are forced to make their young children toil at brick kilns in north India to make enough bricks required to earn them their minimum wages, a ...

Many a brick kiln worker coming to Tiruvallur do not have or carry legal documents such as identity cards and birth certificates. Without a valid identity card they are denied basic social security ...

Brick kiln labour trafficking in Chhattisgarh exposes alleged bonded labour, child labour and the hidden workforce behind construction materials.

CHENNAI: For brick kiln workers in Tamil Nadu, the summer can be as harsh and out of hand like their lives. Since, the hot and humid weather conditions make work impossible during daytime in summer, ...