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
People
-
State violating tribal rights'
Hyderabad, July 20: Taking strong exception to the Andhra Pradesh government's aversion to displaced tribals from Chhattisgarh, the Human Rights Watch organisation has charged the state police and forest officials of direct involvement in destroying nine tribal habitations. A 182-page report titled, Human Rights Watch documents how since mid-2005, the state government has failed to provide indigenous tribal communities displaced from Chhattisgarh with basic assistance, including food, water, shelter, medical services, sanitation, and livelihood opportunities.
-
Govt, MNCs may work on child labour
The Centre has decided to adopt a somewhat novel approach to check the use of child labour by big companies and business groups in the country. Instead of cracking the whip on them, it has decided to rope them in to check the menace by drawing up an action plan in collaboration with them. Having failed in its endeavour to check employment of child labour by the corporate world, the Centre plans to seek the cooperation of business groups, corporates and multi-national companies (MNCs) to check the rampant use of child labour by industrial units and factories.
-
Jharkhand okays rehab policy
THE Jharkhand cabinet on late Wednesday cleared the much-awaited rehabilitation & resettlement (R&R) policy. This paves the way for kicking off a spate of mega steel and power ventures that have been hanging fire for years. A significant feature of the R&R policy is that the investors will have to distribute 1% of the annual net profit of the project among affected families every year. Also, the requiring body (read: investor) will have to spend 1% of their annual net profit for community development.
-
Govt directs export bodies to check child labour
THE government has directed export promotion councils to conduct social auditing of their members before exporting products to rule out any involvement of child labour. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights' (NCPCR) directive is significant in the light of rejection of several export consignments by buyers due to involvement of child labour in the manufacturing process. Certain carpet industry, leather units and garment companies have been allegedly found using child labour in their facilities.
-
Overcoming the skills deficit
Beneath the glitter of impressive economic growth rates, India faces a silent crisis: a shortage of skills. The longstanding problem gained fresh relevance after the economy changed tack in the 1990s. New situations call for new solutions. An altered pattern of employment
-
Panel: Check child labour
New Delhi, July 16: Concerned over the growing incidence of child labour in the country, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has directed state governments and various export promotion councils to set up self regulatory mechanism to check child labour from supply to export stage. India has the highest number of child labour, with reports estimating more than 200 million children working in different sectors, including more than 120 million engaged in hazardous work.
-
Stop child labour, take self-regulatory steps: NCPCR
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has directed state governments and various export promotion councils to set up a self-regulatory mechanism to check child labour from supply to export stage.
-
Human Rights Watch: "End Govt. support for Salwa Judum'
NEW DELHI: The Centre and the Chhattisgarh government should hold the security forces and state-backed vigilantes responsible for having attacked, displaced and killed people in armed operations against Maoist rebels since mid-2005, Human Rights Watch has said. In a report released on Tuesday, it called for an end to all government support for unlawful activities by Salwa Judum vigilantes, and urged the State government to take immediate measures to protect the tens of thousands of persons displaced. It also called upon the Maoist rebels to end attacks on civilians and other abuses.
-
Salwa Judum, forces too violating rights'
RW Urges Govt To End Support To Vigilantes A day before the Centre takes stock of the situation in four major Naxal-affected states, international human rights organization Human Rights Watch on Tuesday questioned the role of security forces and Salwa Judum (anti-Naxalite citizens' movement) for their "involvement in numerous violent abuses' and urged the government to end all support to vigilantes.
-
HRW report critical of salwa judum
A report released by an international human rights organisation has held the Maoists as well as the security forces responsible for widespread human rights violations in Chhattisgarh, which, it says, is virtually under siege due to the clashes. "Neither the government nor the Naxalites leave any room for civilian neutrality. Seeking protection from one side leaves an area's inhabitants at the risk of attack by the other," says the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report titled "Being neutral is our biggest crime: Government, vigilante and Naxalite abuses in India's Chhattishgarh".