Many are bonded labourers, bought or traded by factory owners and working in dangerous conditions for an average of 270 rupees ($3.00) a day to pay back debts that are often passed on to their children, and with no hope of ever earning enough to buy their freedom.
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Location: Delhi, IndiaNationality: BritishBiography: Currently in New Delhi, photojournalist Rebecca Conway works in India and Pakistan. Her long-term personal project titled, Pakistan: The Kalash is a documentation of the Kalash tribe in Pakistan’s Hindu Kush Mountains; the last remnants of the... read on
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Brick Labour
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© 2018 Rebecca Conway
A Pakistani labourer rides a bicycle through a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad on January 11, 2012.
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A Pakistani labourer pours hot coals into the top of a kiln used to fire bricks at a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad on January 11, 2012.
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A Pakistani labourer (L) offers evening prayers at a brick factory on the outskirts of Rawalpindi on November 12, 2011.
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Pakistani labourers move bricks from the inside of a kiln to transport them from a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad on January 11, 2012.
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Pakistani labourers move bricks onto donkeys to transport them from a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad on January 11, 2012.
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Pakistani labourers work at a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad on January 11, 2012.
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Pakistani labourer Kishwar Rani, 7, sits at the brick factory where she and her family work, on the outskirts of Rawalpindi on November 12, 2011.
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A Pakistani labourer is silhouetted as he walks across the top of a kiln at a brick factory on the outskirts of Rawalpindi on November 12, 2011.
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Pakistani children watch a cricket game at a brick factory on the outskirts on Rawalpindi on November 12, 2011.
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A Pakistani labourer watches over six-month-old Ali Raza, the son of another worker, as he digs clay at a brick factory on the outskirts of Rawalpindi on November 12, 2011.
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A Pakistani labourer drinks tea for breakfast at a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad on January 11, 2012.
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Pakistani labourers prepare to start work at a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad on January 11, 2012.
Many are bonded labourers, bought or traded by factory owners and working in dangerous conditions for an average of 270 rupees ($3.00) a day to pay back debts that are often passed on to their children, and with no hope of ever earning enough to buy their freedom.