COVID 19 AND THE BRICK INDUSTRY
Covid 19 Pandemic and the Brick Industry On 24 March due to the Covis 19 Pandemic the Govt imposed a complete lockdown of industry and...
Brick Industry hit by Lockdown / Monsoon Rains
On 24 March due to the Covis 19 Pandemic the Govt imposed a complete lockdown of industry and transport throughout India, giving workers...
An Out of Date post? Not very! In 2014 two brickkiln labourers had their hands cut off for escaping.
In 2014 two poor men from Odissa (Orissa) had their right hands chopped off for trying to escape transport to bonded labour in kilns near...
NGOs sign up for Child Labour Free Bricks - but slowly
The Kolkata based Child Labour Free Bricks Campaign has appealed to NGOs and institutions to sign its PLEDGE to buy bricks only from...
First Conference of All India Brick Kiln Labourers Union - Delhi 6 December 2019
The first Open Conference of the All India Brick Kiln Labourers Union met on Friday 6th December at Jantar Mantar, Delhi. The conference...
Animals suffer too in the Brick Kilns of South Asia
The bulk of the donkeys, mules and horses’ work consists of transporting wet and dry bricks by cart or pack within the kilns and to...
Child Labour continues at thousands of brick kilns throughout South Asia
Children continue to labour at 30,000 + brick kilns throughout the countries of South Asia - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal,...
First "Child Labour Free" brick kiln in India?
UNITED brickfield / brick kiln at Malancha, N 24 Pargs, has been declared 'Child Labour Free' by the owner - Abdul Hamid Mistry. In March...
Child Education at Brick Kilns
Lakhs (hundreds of thousands) of children in South Asia are prevented from going to school because the migration of families to brick...
Public Utilities are using Child Labour Bricks
Bricks made by children, observed at the Nilratan Sirkar Hospital, Kolkata in December 2018. This is one of the largest public hospitals...
