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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3.3 million child labourers in country
While the world observes Children's Day on Tuesday, Pakistan is faced with the problem of about 3.3 million children engaged in various forms of labour.
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Burma labour claims rejected
A high-powered investigatory team from the International Labour Organisation that had unprecedented access inside Burma has dismissed the military government's claims to have abolished forced labour.
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Home forced us to give blood, say street kids
A score of street children who ran away from the Navjivan Home in Vijayawada allege that they paid for their stay in the home with their blood and kidneys. The children were in the city to
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Power to the people
Take a closer look at Tanyongpao fishing village in southern Thailand. It is creating a new brand of democracy. Free from the dictates of policymakers, local people are finding local solutions to
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They work with their hands tied
Despite its flourishing agriculture and remarkable progress in allied industries like poultry and farming, Punjab has earned the dubious distinction of converting a large part of its farm workers
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Empowering women
The Centre has announced the launch of a development programme for women to be administered by the women and child development department. The Swayamsidha has a grandiose idea to empower women to
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ILO project to eliminate child labour in AP
The International labour organisation (ILO) for the first time has selected five places in the country for its pilot project in Andhra Pradesh to eliminated child labour with an aid of Rs. 22 crore,
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Welcome move
The move to set up a national commission for children is to be welcomed and if the proposed bill is passed by Parliament in its current session, the panel is likely to come into being within six
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World has 1 billion unemployed : ILO
There are one billion unemployed people in the world, while 80 per cent of the working population do not have access to the basic social protection mechanisms, International Labour Orgnisation
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Child labour is cruel alright, but who is take care of the freed children?
Under pressure from child rights groups and with some carpet buying countries not willing to buy a product that has used child labour, the Nepal government last year had got the carpet owners to lay