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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ILO warns of global rise in child labour
The world has a quarter of a billion child workers and their numbers are set to rise, according to an International Labour Office report
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1m child workers in Nepal
Report : Statistics show that child labourers in Nepal have doubled in the past four years. According to a newly released report, there are about one million child labourers in Nepal at
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Clinton offers $ 86 million fund
The US-led anti-child labour campaign in South Asia will get a boost with President Bill Clinton's allocation of an additional $ 86 million to help enforce child labour laws at home and abroad.
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Against child labor
A campaign to champion the cause of some 250 million children worldwide who are forced to work for survival was launched in Manila when thousands of children from various parts of Asia held a march
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Voluntary groups draft plans for helping street children
Over 20 non-governmental organisations came together on Tuesday to draft plans for helping street and working children in
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Carpet exporters petition US govt on import ban
An apex body of carpet exporters have petitioned the United States government to exempt Indian carpets from the ambit of a recent amendment prohibiting import of goods produced by child labour. The
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US to give $5 lakh to eliminate child labour
The US Government will provide an additional amount of US dollars 500,000 to support the implementation of the second phase of the MOU on elimination of child labour in garment industries of
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Workshop on child labour in carpet industry
The two-day workshop organized by the ILO-IPEC Project on Combating Child Labour in the Carpet Industry in Pakistan on self-evaluation/stakeholders began in Lahore on Tuesday. The workshop aims at
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New multicrore programme for women
Indira Mahila Yojana and Mahila Samridhi Yojana - two of the programmes for women inherited by the current Government at the Centre - have been recast and combined to launch a new integrated
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Two more schemes for women
Swayamsiddha and Swadhar are the latest to join the lengthening list of schemes the BJP-led government has announced for women's welfare and empowerment.