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• 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

  • 07/05/2024

  • International Organization for Migration (IOM)
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• UN pat for children's programme

  Janshala, a special focus programme launched in 1998 for the children of the urban poor in Rajasthan, has received kudos from the UN community. First of its kind for the deprived children in cities

  • 19/07/2002

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • People

• SAARC meet to focus on children

  Setting aside their differences on contentious issues, ministers incharge of women and child development from the SAARC nations are meeting in Kathmandu next week to assess the progress achieved in

  • 21/05/2001

  • • People

• BJP doing nothing for tribals : Mistry

  Congress MP Madhusudan Mistry derided the BJP for cajoling tribals to attract votes through the Gaurav Yatra, but actually doing nothing substantial for their upliftment. He stated that under the

  • 24/12/2001

  • • People

• Child development agenda gets voice

  A need formulate universal guidelines for survival, protection and development of children was stressed at the two day World Children Summit. The summit was attended by ambassadors and high

  • 09/10/2002

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • People

• 65 lakh children engaged in risky jobs : UNICEF

  Sixty five lakh out of 1.57 crore children aged between 10 and 14 are engaged in different types of risky jobs in Bangladesh.

  • 20/05/2001

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • People

• Dhaka fails to implement CRC for child survival

  Bangladesh has failed to successfully implement the Child Rights Convention (CRC) for child survival, protection and development, enunciated in a "World Declaration" in 1990, reports

  • 07/06/2001

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • People

• Study fuels Asian worker debate

  The typical worker at a clothing or footwear factory run by a multinational corporation in south-east Asia with poor education and training, but strong hopes of enhancing her skills through her

  • 09/06/2000

  • Financial Times (London)
  • • People

• Displaced former Kamaiyas to get land

  A meeting of Nepal's Central Monitoring and Coordination Committee formed to look into the problems of Kamaiyas has decided to direct concerned District Development Committees (DDCs) to among other,

  • 19/12/1999

  • • People

• Sharp reply seen if U.S. builds shield

  A highly classified intelligence report warns that deploying a U.S. national missile defense could prompt China to expand its nuclear arsenal tenfold and lead Russia to place multiple warheads on

  • 11/12/1999

  • International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
  • • People

• Rehabilitation of Kamaiyas starts in Dang district

  The Nepal government has initiated the process of rehabilitation of the Kamaiya labourers in the district of Dang. In its landmark decision on July 17, the government had emancipated all the

  • 08/05/2000

  • • People