Children as young as five work as brick makers in Afghanistans kilns, as poverty and debt keep their families in low-wage bonded labour. Fifty-six per cent of the brick makers in Afghan kilns are children, most of whom started working at the age of seven or eight. Tackling the issue is far more complex than just banning child labour in the kilns, according to a new ILO report Buried in Bricks. The report has come out on 12 June 2012, the tenth year of the ILOs World Day Against Child Labour.
Children as young as five work as brick makers in Afghanistans kilns, as poverty and debt keep their families in low-wage bonded labour. Fifty-six per cent of the brick makers in Afghan kilns are children, most of whom started working at the age of seven or eight. Tackling the issue is far more complex than just banning child labour in the kilns, according to a new ILO report Buried in Bricks. The report has come out on 12 June 2012, the tenth year of the ILOs World Day Against Child Labour.
