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VIDEOS
VICE on HBO. Season 2, ep. 2. Jan 9 2015. “VICE goes to Pakistan, where millions of men, women, and children work as bonded laborers in brick kilns.”
ARTICLES
“Child Labor in Pakistan”
—The Borgen Project. May 15 2017.
“Bonded Labor in Pakistan”
—Allegra Lab. Nov 4 2016.
“I was born into the brick kilns. I started working at the age of 12. The work never ended.”
—Humans of New York. Aug 17 2015.
“Pakistani Christian’s mother says son killed for asking for an end to his slavery”
—World Watch Monitor. Jul 27 2017.
“Outrage in Pakistan over abuse of child domestic workers”
—The Guardian. Aug 13 2019.
“Examining Brick Kiln Slavery in Pakistan”
—Borgen Magazine. Aug 17 2019.
“Pakistan kiln workers live like ‘slaves’”
—Al Jazeera. Jul 17 2014.
“Over 250,000 children work in brick kilns”
—The Express Tribune. Oct 3 2010.
“Brick kiln workers: the endless battle”
—The Friday Times. Aug 8 2015.
“Modern ‘slaves’: Pakistan’s bonded labourers fight back”
—The Irish Times. Jul 24 2018.
“Asia Bibi
: Pakistan's notorious
blasphemy case”
—BBC. Feb 01 2019.
“Bricked in by debt, Pakistan's child ‘slaves’”
—CNN. Nov 25 2009.
“Pakistan kiln laborers hemmed in by debts they can’t repay”
—Los Angeles Times. Jan 09 2013.
“Brick Kiln Workers”
—Dawn. Oct 17 2018. (Reporting on shutting down of brick kilns due to smog concerns)