A study by the Bonded Labour Liberation Front Pakistan (BLLFP), a group of charities working to help the labourers, estimates 4.5 million brick kiln workers are victims of this illegal custom.

A case has been registered against a brick kiln owner for allegedly beating up a couple working for him in Maharashtra`s Thane district, police said on Sunday, reported news agency PTI. Based on a ...

This financial insecurity has supplied the vulnerable labour for brick kilns. Owners offer to pay off the loan but, in return, the worker is bonded to the kiln. Often whole families are bonded to ...

A gruesome murder at the RBI brick kiln in Geleki ... workers reportedly trapped and abused at the kiln. They have also urged the state labour commissioner to take stern action against the ...

The Supreme Court on Friday said the plea to enforce fundamental rights of people trafficked as bonded labourers was not an adversarial one. Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih made the ...