Child Labour grows at Afghan Kilns as girls replace women

Aljazeera report of Sept 2022 with many photos, describing sharply increasing child labour in Afghanistan’s brick kilns since the Taliban took over and most international aid stopped flowing. Children are working so that their families will not die of starvation.

As you know the Taliban regime has broken its word and banned women from most work outside the home. To compensate for this more children are working, and especially girls are doing the heavy work at the kilns that their mothers used to do.

In case anyone should think that Afghanistan is an especially backward and benighted place, take note that in the World’s largest parliamentary democracy India (which sends rockets to Mars and exports IT technicians to the West by the thousand) probably a million child labourers work at the brick kilns every year and do not attend any school. This child labour continues within 10 or 20 kilometres of the residences of chief ministers in the full light of day.

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/9/26/photos-poverty-pushes-afghan-children-to-work-at-brick-kilns

Modern low polluting Brick Kiln arrives in Bangladesh :

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Feb 3, 2023
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A modern, low polluting brick kiln has been built in Bangladesh, where most kilns currently working are primitive, highly polluting and and employ labour in medieval conditions.

The new kiln uses technology and methods largely imported from China. The cost of the new plant , and difficulties of translation and adaptation mean that it will be challenging to spread this type of plant widely in Bangladesh. Nevertheless this must be the future for the brick industry in South Asia. See the 2019 link below :