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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Meena is Unicef's symbol of the girl child
From South Asia, little Meena is set to travel the globe as an ambassador for Unicef, the UN Children's Fund. This girl from the world of animation is taking up the task of building awareness about
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Struggle against child labour, ILO theme
The 86th annual International Labour Conference (ILC) got under way in Geneva recently in the company of hundreds of marchers for whom the conference was the final destination in a Global March that
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New tribe found
A previously unknown tribe of Indians believed to never have had contact with modern society has been spotted in the Amazon Jungle, officials with the National Indian Foundation(FUNAI)
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Govt to back ILO on child labour
The government is expected to endorse the draft of the International Labour Organisatio's convention on child labour. This is because the ILO is now focussing on putting a halt to "cetain forms of
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India to back international conventions on child labour
India has proposed to work towards different sets of norms for developed and developing countries with regards to fundamental human rights at work at the plenary session of the 86th International
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240 child labourers to be admitted in schools
Andhra Pradesh construction mazdoor sangh, an affiliated wing of the Bharatiya mazdoor sangh, will admit about 240 child labourers in regular schools, as part of the International programmes on the
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India cannot afford total ban on child labour
Union Labour Minister Satyanarayan Jatia indicated that all necessary steps would be taken by the Centre, in cooperation with State Governments, to abolish the contract system practiced throughout
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March against child labour ends in Geneva on time for global meet
Scores of youngsters ended a long march against child labour in Geneva on Saturday, demanding an end to the greed of bosses and the complicity of governments. Between them they had covered a total of
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UNFPA aid to Haryana
The Haryana Government is implementing an Integrated Women's Empowerment and Development Project with the assistance of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities at a cost of over Rs. 8.11
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World unions denounce child labour in Pakistan
An international trade union organisation has denounced the practice of child labour in Pakistan which it said occurs under dangerous conditions and violates international law. The International