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Cambodia construction boom built on “blood bricks” and slavery – report

Cambodia garment worker

Phnom Penh, CambodiaThomson Reuters Foundation Cambodia’s construction boom is built in part with “blood bricks” manufactured by modern-day slaves, including children, researchers said on Tuesday. Poverty fuelled partly by climate change has pushed tens of thousands of Cambodian families into bonded labour, making bricks for buildings in the capital, Phnom Penh, according to a report […]