Cambodia’s construction boom is built in part with “blood bricks” manufactured by modern-day slaves, including children, as poverty pushed tens of thousands of Cambodian families into bonded labor, Reuters reported, quoting a report from London’s Royal Holloway University. The report also illustrates how urban development is propelled by unsustainable levels of debt taken out by farmers to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change when their crop fails. Human trafficking is a daily occurrence in Cambodia, according to the Phnom Penh Post. Some are abducted and sold into forms of slavery for as little as $30. Others pay hundreds of dollars to people-smugglers who promise them a better, brighter future somewhere else.