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After children as young as four were found working in squalid conditions, an NGO launches ‘Blood Bricks’ campaign to raise awareness of human rights abuses in India’s brick kilns. The Blood Bricks campaign, launched by Union Solidarity International (USI), a UK based NGO in association with PRAYAS (http://prayaschittor.org) will work to force international attention on the issue of bonded labourers in brick kilns. In partnership with Indian human rights group, Prayas, they have been working to organise brick kiln workers into unions, an initiative that has already seen 70 per cent wage rises in some areas. On the outskirts of Hyderabad, the sprawling capital of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, thick clouds of smoke hang above a primal scene of bare-footed workers clambering atop kilns, hacking at mounds of clay and hauling heavy loads. This is just one of over 1,50,000 brick production units in the country, which together employ an estimated 1 crore workers, churning out the building blocks of the new offices and apartments, factories and shopping malls. All told, India’s brick industry — the second largest in the world after China — contributes around GBP3bn (more than Rs. 30,000 crore) to the country’s economy every year. Not that the workers see much of that.
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bonded labourers, brick kilns, child labourers, migrant labourers, construction workers, welfare, human rights, employment, wages, Prayas, Union Solidarity International (USI), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
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