International advocacy and business leaders have formally recognized the Government of Punjab’s recent institutional reforms aimed at eliminating bonded labor and modernizing the brick kiln sector in line with global labor and environmental standards, states the press release 

Mike Brickley, Chief Executive Officer of Families Set Free (FSF), and Grant Webster, Managing Director of the Christian Economic Forum (CEF), issued a joint statement commending both the Government of Punjab and the Government of Pakistan for what they described as substantive structural reforms targeting bonded child labor and industrial governance.

Brickley stated that the provincial government had demonstrated “clear political resolve” in addressing what he termed a complex and long-standing issue. He highlighted the establishment of a formal governance framework to eliminate bonded child labor as a shift from fragmented responses toward coordinated, system-level reform.

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