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 ...

Refractory maintenance, though vital, can often be a logistical and financial burden. This is especially true for power plants, cement plants, and other large facilities that rely on boilers, kilns, ...

DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Researchers in Bangladesh are developing new building materials to mitigate the environmental damage caused by brick manufacturing. The country produces 25 billion ...

Brick manufacturing is a central component of the economy in South Asia, but also a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, as the practice releases carbon dioxide (CO 2), fine ...

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 ...

During the dry winter months in Bangladesh, thousands of workers shovel millions of tons of coal into kilns across the country. As columns of hand-packed bricks bake and harden, dark plumes of smoke ...

Ten-year-old boy Maharram came to work at a brick kiln in Dhamrai just one month ago. He will also have to work for the next five months—every day from 6 am to 8 pm, with only a short break for meals.

A laborer loads baked bricks into a cart at a brick kiln in Bath village near Lahore. (Photo: Kamran Chaudhry) In 2018, Rafiq Gulzar took a peshgi — an advance payment against labor — from a bhatta ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Most of the 12 million workers in India's brick kilns are victims of debt bondage, labor rights campaigners said on Friday, as they appealed to all major ...