Activists from human rights organisations held a protest on December 30, 2011 to show solidarity with bonded labour…They were demanding the government to ensure the labourers got their rights. According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), there are more than three to eight million people working as bonded labour in Sindh and Punjab. They claim that these people work for land lords and brick kiln owners because of debt. Sharafat Ali, programme officer at the Pakistan Labour Education and Research (PLIER)…said that if brick furnaces in Sindh were registered then the bonded labour would have the same rights as other labourers. He added that the Sindh government had started the registration process.