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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Child labourers die in dramatic succession
There has been a dramatic succession of deaths of child labourers in different occupations. Most of the deaths have been in industries/occupations that are legally prohibited which demonstrates the
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Aboriginal deal struck
Prime Minister John Howard of Australia struck a deal with a key senator to adopt an Aboriginal land rights law, a compromise that enabled Mr. Howard to avoid calling early
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Unicef report highlights children's plight
One third of children or 40 million born each year in the world are at risk of being deprived of their rights because they are not registered at birth, Unicef's 1998 report "The Progress of Nations'
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WB sanctions $300 m loan for women's project
The World Bank has approved a $ 300 million loan for a women and child development project in Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh aimed at reducing the number of infant,
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Security Council tackles question of rapid rise of children soldiers
As a measure of how dramatically the face of modern warfare has changed in the last decade, the Security Council has spent a day debating the rapid increase in the number of child soldiers worldwide
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15,105 children toil in hazardous units
As many as 15, 105 child labourers employed are in hazardous units and 18,043 in non-hazardous units in UP. These child labourers were identified following an order of the Supreme Court last
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NGOs form federation to eradicate bonded labour
A group of NGOs, which were involved in conducting a survey in various parts of the Kerala to identify bonded labourers, have formed a federation for eradicating bonded labour in the State and has
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New standards to check child labour urged
Taking cognizance of the fact that more than 250 million children between five and 14 years have to work wither full time or part time in the developing countries alone, the new draft convention on
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MP tribals denied ownership of land
Thousands of tribals living in "forest villages" across Madhya Pradesh have been deprived of ownership rights over their land, according to a Betul-based tribals body, Shramik Adivasi Sangathan, as
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ILO to vote on child labour draft
An international convention to "ban the most intolerable forms of child labour", drafted by the ILO, will be put to vote tomorrow at Geneva. This will conclude the Global march against child labour