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• 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

  • 07/05/2024

  • International Organization for Migration (IOM)
  • • Migration
    • Displacement
    • Climate Change
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    • Women
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• Madhya Pradesh Government renders families of Bega tribe homeless

  Althought the Madhya Pradesh government claims to be a champion of Dalits, tribals and the weaker sections, 45 families of the Bega tribe find themselves refugees in their

  • 09/02/2002

  • • People

• Pact for child labour elimination

  International labour organisation signed an agreement with the consortium of employers associations for the elimination of child labour titled 'Cease child labour' on Friday in Andhra

  • 02/02/2002

  • • People

• Children languishing in Tamil Nadu hazardous units

  Even five years after the Tamil Nadu Government spotted hundreds of child labourers, most of them continue to toil in hazardous industries, while a Rs. 4.74 crore fund created for their

  • 07/02/2002

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • People

• DPI to conduct children census

  The Department of Public Instructions will conduct a census of children who are in the age group of 3 to 14 years, from February 14 to 16 throughout Karnataka. The exercise is undertaken to identify

  • 12/02/2002

  • Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
  • • People

• 'Stree Shakti' project to be launched

  To empower women, especially those belonging to weaker sections of the society, and to facilitate their participation in the national mainstream, the Delhi Government will be launching a "Stree

  • 16/02/2002

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • People

• New project for removing child labour launched in Rangpur

  Light House, a voluntary development organisation, recently launched a project in Rangpur (Bangladesh) aiming at removing child labourers from tobacco and bidi industry and improving their

  • 11/02/2002

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • People

• Avoiding hazards a priority

  Child labour thrives in India despite a whole plethora of punitive as well as prohibitive laws. In the absence of a political will, all efforts in the past to eliminate the curse of child labour have

  • 15/02/2002

  • • People

• Bonded labourers out of the kiln

  Ten families, working as 'bonded labour' brick kiln, where they had been employed, at Vellivoyal in Ponneri taluk, 30 km from Chennai. The law specifies that Rs 1,000 be provided to every labourer as

  • 21/02/2002

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • People

• Honoured for working among tribals

  Ms Krishna Das, in charge of the Chhattisgarh unit of the Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, has been honoured by the National Commission for Women for her work in the tribal

  • 19/02/2002

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • People

• Large density of child labourers in State

  Karnataka is among the 13 states which have large population of child labour in country, Union labour minister Satyanarayan Jatia said on

  • 21/01/2001

  • Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
  • • People