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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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• NHRC for bonded labour eradication

  The National Human Rights Commission has identified six areas including Telangana (AP) and Kalahandi (Orissa) which need priority attention in eradicating bonded labour and drawn up an action plan to

  • 23/12/1997

  • • People

• NHRC plans workshop on bonded labour

  The first meeting of the National Human Rights Commission's Central Action Group on bonded labour has decided to identify the districts where the practice is acute and organise a workshop for the

  • 21/12/1997

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • People

• Prayas launches project for children in distress

  Childline, a project to help abused, exploited, homeless and all such children in distriess, was lunched at Jehangirpuri in north Delhi through a non-govenrnmental organisation, Prayas, on Friday.

  • 03/10/1998

  • • People

• '15 percent children in hazardous work'

  According to research carried by CWIN, an NGO working for child welfare, 15 per cent of the total children in Nepal are engaged in hazardous work. 4,50,000 children are among the nine million

  • 14/12/1997

  • • People

• Group set up to study bonded labour

  A high-level central action group has been set up to study various aspects of bonded labour. The group, formed by the National Human Rights Commission , will submit periodic reports to the Supreme

  • 11/12/1997

  • • People

• Controversy over estimates of child labour in India

  A controversy has risen over the number of child labour in the country. The figure provided by the states and Union territories peg it at only five lakh. But the Central government is not prepared to

  • 11/12/1997

  • • People

• ILO concerned over child labour in India

  At least 16 UN agencies, led by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) , have expressed concern over the fact that India ccounts for the largest number of child workers in the world. Though

  • 07/12/1997

  • • People

• USAID adds US $2 m to women empowerment

  The government of Nepal and the US Agency for International Development has signed an amendment adding US$2 million to the Strategic Objective Agreement for increased women's empowerment. This

  • 28/12/1997

  • • People

• Programme to fight child labour

  International Labour Organization (ILO) and the UN Children's Educational Fund (UNICEF) announced a programme to combat the bonded labour problem in Nepal. The programme entitled:"Towards elimination

  • 25/12/1997

  • • People

• Adidas-Saloman denies claim

  Adidas-Saloman said an internal investigation had found no evidence that sub-contractors had used prison labour in China to produce footballs. The German sports goods company suspended orders for

  • 20/12/1997

  • Financial Times (London)
  • • People