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
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UP releases 65 child labourers
A Uttar Pradesh government task force has freed 65 children employed in professionally hazardous organisations in the
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24,000 women to benefit from WB-aided scheme
As many as 24,000 women of Sabarkantha and Panchmahals districts are to benefit from a Rs 31 -crore World Bank-aided programme to encourage self-employment projects. This was announced by state
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Unicef rebuke on slave issue angers charities
Private charities that are buying freedom for enslaved children and young women in Sudan have reacted angrily to recent criticism of them from Unicef, the UN Children's Fund. "It is difficult to
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Keep the faith
They came in thousands, in boats, across rivers so huge that you often lose sight of the banks. On 21 February, they had set out at the crack of dawn, when a pale mist still hung over the waters, and
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Increase in child labour in Tripura
Though child labour is against the law and spirit of the Constitution and exploiting children for personal needs inhumane, it is increasing at an alarming pace in the North Eastern State of Tripura.
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Child beggars in Asia
A symptom of pain : Until recently, the incidence of child beggars was overshadowed by the more visible and voluminous trade of women and children being trafficked for prostitution. But experts see
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ILO launches drive to fight child labour
In an attempt to get millions of Pakistani children out of the work-force and into school, the International Labour Organisation announced a $2.9 million programme to fight child
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Why was US team allowed to study child labour?
The opposition demanded an explaination from the government as to why a US team of custom officials was permitted into the country to assess forced child labour in the Indian textile industry. The
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Aborigens suffer unsurpassed cruelty
Mixed-race aborigines taken as children from their parents under an obsolete policy of enforced sepration suffered cruelty unsurpassed in recent Australian history. Senior counsel Jack Rush told the
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Does mom's work hurt? Not likely
A comprehensive, multiyear study concludes that mothers who work outside the home are not harming their children. The research, published in the March issue of Developmental Psychology magazine,