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
The Central Water Commission has favoured the raising of the water level in the Mulla Periyar dam up to 145 feet, against the original level of 152 feet. It has also dismissed the apprehensions of
This country is on the threshold of another horror that will lead, once again, to civil strife, the kind of which we have not seen yet. The implications of a proposed Bill, the recognition of forest
The Draft Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill 2005
At least two persons died and nearly two dozen others from the tribal village of Dugeli in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh were hospitalised after eating rotten beef of dead cattle. The deaths and
The Child Labor Prevention and Regulation Act (CLPRA)(Nepal) is not child-friendly. It has also failed to address several important issues pertaining to children, child rights activists said.
Over a decade after the question of child labor in Nepal came to the fore, the phenomenon remains much the same. Organizations that claim to work for the welfare of the children say there are still
Campaign Agaisnt Child Labour, (CACL), an NGO, has found that over 5,000 children are employed in 900 brick kilns in Kanyakumari district. The NGO released its findings in a field study report which
Hundreds of people staged a demonstration at Chowck Yadgar (Pakistan) to protest against shortage of drinking water. Police said that people from different localities assembled at the congested
A seminar against child labour was organised under the aegis of Child Rights Committee and NGOs of Khairpur district (Pakistan). Speaking on the occasion, Iqbal Detho, Zarina Jalbani and others
If the PMO and UPA have their way and The Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill, 2005, is passed this Parliament session, India stands to lose 60 per cent of its forest cover. Under