The annual brickmaking process covers many months, culminating in October and November with the building of a kiln — a new ...

In Pakistan, families are forced to make over 1,500 bricks a day to repay loans from the kiln owners. However, they are not told how much they owe, how long they must work, or how much interest is ...

Down a lush green path at the end of North Queen Street in Colonial Williamsburg, stacks of sandy-colored unbaked bricks tower about six-feet high inside unwalled sheds. It’s brick firing season in ...

Thousands of bricks are being put to the fire in Colonial Williamsburg this week, as an annual November tradition heats up the old-fashioned way. Each November, typically the week before Thanksgiving, ...

KABUL, Afghanistan – Every day that Dil Agha works at his backbreaking job at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Afghanistan's capital Kabul, from before sunrise to well after sunset, he digs himself ...

It’s happened at last. From John Kennedy at Global Voices: From forcing the rescue of hundreds of brick kiln slave laborers last year and seeing it through long after local bodies gave up to being ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Nabila works 10 hours or more a day, doing the heavy, dirty labor of packing mud into molds and hauling wheelbarrows full of bricks. At 12 years old, she's been working in brick ...

This video demonstrates the process of firing a large cooking pot made from locally sourced clay using an adobe brick kiln, ...

KARJAT, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of brick kiln workers in India's western Maharashtra state are learning from activists that they have the right to a minimum wage, basic ...

Around 550 brick kilns are currently operational in Prayagraj district. All are mandated to pay regulatory fees based on ...