World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
After getting tremendous response across the cities and villages of Punjab, Nanhi Chhaan, an initiative to save girl child and trees, was launched in the Capital. The Delhi chapter of the initiative that started from auspicious corridor of Golden Temple in Amritsar, was inaugurated here today in the sacred premises of Sacred Heart Cathedral.
HAILAKANDI, March 22
Nalini Ravichandran | ENS Chennai, MANUAL scavengers in Tamil Nadu continue to wait in vain for their rehabilitation package by TAHDCO (The Tamil Nadu Adi Dravidar Housing and Development Corporation). The rehab package is meant to help them quit their work and start their own business ventures. But 142 scavengers throughout the state have been made to wait.
With submergence threat at their doorsteps, aggrieved residents of Pul Doda and its adjoining areas in district Doda are at the mercy of the callous officials of various departments dealing with the distribution of adequate compensation for their proper rehabilitation and resettlement.
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has reduced the cut-off age for child labour in hazardous industries from 18 to 14. A government resolution issued by the state labour department on March 2 stated that anyone employing children below 14 in hazardous industries will be prosecuted and fined Rs20,000 for each child employed. The state's "regressive" step has shocked child labour activists.
Child labour is widespread in home-based manufacturing activities in the informal sector in most developing countries. However, very little is known of child labour in industrial outwork.
The article by Medha Patkar and Amit Bhaduri offers a correct critique of the current corporate-led rapacious industrialisation which destroys nature and livelihoods. But it does not focus enough on strategies of mobilising people to take charge of the form and content of industrialisation.
About 500,000 people move to Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh each year, mostly from coastal, riverine and rural areas.
Mumbai: An organisation training girls from the Delhi slums to be professional taxi drivers, another working on the mental health issues of mothers and young girls from Kolkata, and an NGO responsible for introducing innovative research and education programmes for tribal girls in Andhra Pradesh have won the first Kubera-Edelweiss Social Innovation Honours (KESIH).