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
THERE is a distinct naivete in Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury's vision of craft lineages. She says she would like the ban on child labour eased in the service of
UNION Minister of State for Women & Child Development Renuka Chowdhury wants the ban on child labour eased to allow them to pick up traditional crafts and skills such as carpet-weaving within the
The group of minis ters (GoM) headed by external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee has cleared the tribal bill. It could now facilitate the passage of the bill in both Houses of Parliament. The
Decks have been cleared for the passage of a Bill for recognition of forest rights of scheduled tribes with a group of ministers (GoM) on tribal affairs brokering a consensus on certain contentious
AS MANY as 78 children were rescued from three zari factories in the Capital. While a contractor (who brought the children to the unit) was arrested, seven others managed to escape. The factories in
A total 32 cases have been registered under the child labour eradication law enforced in the State and around 42 child labourers have been freed. The cases have been registered under Section 14 of
Even as the nation marks Children's Day with the usual fanfare, over 12 lakh children between five and 14 remain employed in hazardous occupations despite the government banning child labour 20 years
The Centre is planning to expand the National Child Labour Projects (NCLPs) to all districts in the country during the 11th Plan. The labour ministry would soon submit a proposal to the Planning
The Corporation of Cochin will give away certificates of meritorious social service to those schools which successfully implement alternative waste management mechanisms on thier campuses, this
Almost a month after the ban on child labour came into force, Delhi High Court rapped the State Government for the "absence' of any mechanism to send the children rescued from different factories