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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
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• ILO warning on child labour

  New estimates from the International Labour organisation suggest that 246m children around the world-one in six of all children aged 5 to 17 are involved in forms of child labour that the ILO wants

  • 07/05/2002

  • Financial Times (London)
  • • People

• Child labour

  The Andhra Pradesh government informed that the Child labour Act, 1986, defines the 'child' as a person who had not completed his or her 14th year of

  • 07/05/2002

  • • People

• Child labour cases up

  There is rise in child labour in Simour district . There are more than 200 children working as porters, cobblers, vehicle cleaners and at dhabas and shops. Children below the age of 14 come to

  • 04/05/2002

  • Tribune (New Delhi)
  • • People

• ILO plan to end child labour comes to city

  The crusade against child labour in Hyderabad is poised to acquire more strength what with the International Labour Organisation(ILO) joining the bandwagon of NGOs and other associations working

  • 03/05/2002

  • • People

• Orissa tribals want settlers deported

  Tribals would be reduced to a minority ' in their own land'' if 'infiltration continues unabated' in Nowrangpur district (Orissa) president of Dalit Samaj Mr Jagabandhu Majhi said. If the

  • 06/05/2002

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • People

• NHRC to look into child labour cases

  A representative of the National human rights commission(NHRC) will tour Kurnool district on Thursday for an on the spot assessment of children working as bonded labourers in the district of Andhra

  • 09/05/2002

  • • People

• 1.5 lakh kids work as labourers in Kurnool : Survey

  There are over 1.5 lakh child labourers languishing in slavery in different parts of Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh alone, according to preliminary

  • 08/05/2002

  • Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
  • • People

• UN special meet for children ends in NY

  Be it Afghanistan, Brazil, Sierra Leone or India, children poured out similar tales of courage, despair, hopelessness, resilience and faith. They were speaking at the UN General Assembly's Special

  • 13/05/2002

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • People

• Children play with fire in match factory

  Children still work hard and for long hours earning minimal wages in dingy factories to provide for the family meal. The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1968, is just for archive

  • 16/05/2002

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • People

• India uses subcontracted child labour : ILO

  The International Labour Organisation in its global report under the follow up to the ILO declaration on fundamental principles and rights at work, has found evidence that home based work involving

  • 20/05/2002

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • People