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
People
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Hazare gets care International Humanitarian Award
Noted social worker and pioneer of watershed development Anna Hazare has been conferred with the prestigious "Care International Humanitarian Award" for 1998. The award was announced by Country
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Football stitching less hazardous to child labour, says NGO
In the wake of the interntional furore over the issue of children stitching footballs in Sialkot district of Pakistan, a special study team of an NGO has found that despite its problems, football
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Child labour
govt urged to take effective steps: The Karnataka Chapter of Campaign Against Child Labour (CACL-K) has urged the State government to bring amendments to Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation Act)
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370 million children exploited in India
Fifty years after Independence and irrespective of many laws pasased for their protection, 370 million children in India are still struggling to break free from the shackles which bind them to
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TN bonded labourers still waiting
One year after a State sponsored survey provided these startling statistics on the plight of bonded labourers in the Tamil Nadu, things are not exactly cut out for the State's proposed rescue plan. A
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NGO spells hope for bonded labourers forgotten by Govt
An NGO, Shramjeevi Sangathana, has nailed the lie of the Maharashtra Government that there have been no bonded labourers in the State since 1992. The Sangathana recently rescued a group of labourers
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Ban on employment of children in hazardous units sought
A legislation to prevent the employment of children in hazardous industries, like match and fireworks factories and tanneries, has been mooted at an UGC-sponsored State-level seminar on 'Child rights
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World comes to Dholavira to watch empire lost 5,000 years ago
A special report on lost empire that 300 labourers and a six-member team of archaeologists have made it their mission to rediscover. After seven long years of hope and sweat they have stumbled on to
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- ICDS projects
As little as 9 per cent of the total projects, under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) are being undertaken in the slums of the national Capital while the infant mortality rate (IMR)
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- Ban likely on Adivasi Mukti Sangathan
The tussle between the two adivasi organisations of Nimar region, is likely to restart as workers of both these organisaions, it is learnt, are busy in preparing their strategies for the same. The