Around 87,000 children of brick kilns enrolled in schools.

ISLAMABAD -- Human Rights activist Ayub Malik here on Tuesday said that around 87,000 children of brick kilns workers had been enrolled in the different government sponsored schools for free education.

Talking to reporter, he expressed that these workers were largely deprived from their legal rights, entitlements and forced to work in unhealthy and unsafe environments.

The working conditions, he added that their are no better than the workers' own living conditions. A majority of the workers at the brick kilns were working due to poverty while most of them have been sent by their families, he added.

To a question he said that at least 20,000 families were attached with brick kilns business most of them women and children facing exploitation which stirs the need for proper implementation of existing laws towards the most neglected sector.

He said that there...