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
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Orissa tribes face extinction
Orissa, home to as many as 62 tribes, may soon lose a few of them, with some of these tribes facing serious of extinction. Not only has there been an overall decline in the population of some of
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100m children growing up unprotected
UNICEF : Motherless babies, children forced onto the streets to work, and millions of other youngsters growing up without the security of a family pay a heavy price for poverty, UNICEF report said on
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Globalisation spurs migrants
The number of migrants around the world has jumped to 130 millions and could grow relentlessly under the pressure of increasing globalisation, the International Labour Organisation said. Peter
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Saarc to prepare report on children
Pakistan, as one of the six initiator countries of Child Summit held in New York ten years back, will convene SAARC meeting in Pakistan soon to prepare an update report on condition of children in
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Tribals still on the fringes'
After centuries of oppression and neglect, tribals in the country still lead a faceless existence and seem to be heading for the worst, according to Magsayasay Award winner Mahasweta Devi.
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Issue of Tribe Could Haunt Kenyan Census
KENYA will hold a post-enumeration survey at the end of this month to evaluate the August 1999 national population and housing census. The exercise, estimated to cost Ksh20.3 million ($270,000),
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Unicef to focus on girl child this week
As part of the girl child week, being held from September 20 to 26. Unicef has decided to bring into focus, the issus plaguing this section of the society through Meena, an animated film series,
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A project on women's empowerment
The Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) and the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) have joined hands to launch a pilot project on Women's Development and
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Move to make nominees sign pledge letters
The Bachpan Bachao Andolan, the nucleus body of the South Asian Coalition for Child Servitude, plans to approach candidates contesting the Lok Sabha elections to place on record their commitment to
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World Bank project 'hurts minorities'
Dozens of activists gathered outside the World Bank headquarters yesterday vowing to fight a controversial new bank project on the mainland that they claim would harm minority