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
Despite a plethora of labour laws and frequent seminars and symposia on child rights, children from West Bengal are being forced to work as bonded labour in the ornament manufacturing units scattered
The ILO which observed the World Day against Child Labour, estimates that there are one million children aged between 5 and 17 currently toiling in mines and quarries all over the world. While
Speakers at a seminar on child labour in Peshawar (Pakistan) have reminded the government of its "constitutional obligation' to provide free education to children, extend proper facilities for their
An estimated 30 lakh people from Tamil Nadu are working as bonded labourers in other states, while 12 lakh children are working as bonded labourers within the State, said Sudharshan Nachiappan, MP,
Kerala would bring in a comprehensive legislation to ban child labour in the state, labour minister Babu Divakaran said on Sunday. The draft for the legislation was being considered by the cabinet,
In 1999, there were about 4,584 children working in Markapur in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh, where slate mining is the prime occupation. In the last five years, this number has come down to
The National Capital Territory of Delhi has registered a considerable increase in the number of child domestic workers, claims a new study.The study states that child domestic workers are subjected
The Delhi Transport Department is all set to acquire a fully automated inspection unit for commercial vehicles plying in the city. The plant will replace manual and semi-automatic facilities
Twenty-nine children being forced to work in a zari workshop were rescued today in a raid in Janakpuri, west Delhi. The raid was organised by the police, Labour Department and an NGO. The police
Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) chief Subhas Ghising has demanded tribal status for Darjeeling Hills if his original demand for a separate state of "Gorkhaland" could not be conceded by the