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Bricked in by poverty, Cambodia's farmers fight debt bondage

Bricked in by poverty, Cambodia's farmers fight debt bondage [Courtesy]

Bopha should be in school but instead toils seven days a week in a searing brick kiln on the outskirts of Phnom Penh -- a 14-year-old trapped in debt bondage in a boom industry preying on the poverty of Cambodia's farmers.

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