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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Child labour shadow over World Cup
With barely a week left for World Cup 2002 to begin in Korea and Japan, the Bachpan Bachao Andolan and the Global March Against Child Labour today protested against FIFA's alleged failure to comply
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Here, most women are insured
A unique revolution is sweeping the rural areas of the tribal dominated Bastar in Chhattisgarh. All rural women the backbone of the domestic economy between 10 and 75 years have been insured under
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Children bleed in cotton farms
Every year thousands of tender hands work to promote pollination of cotton flowers as part of an exercise to manufacture hybrid seeds in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. At least a thousand
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ILO training officials to curb child labour
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has embarked on a massive training programme for government officials aimed at effective enforcement of laws to prevent child labour in Andhra Pradesh
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Move to identify landless tribals again
The much publicised agreement between the Chief Minister, A.K. Antony, and the tribal leader, C K Janu, on allocation of land to landless tribals seems to be headed for a dead end with the Government
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Tribal students put remote village on road to progress
Raite, a remote Maharashtrian village, shot into limelight in 1998 when some tribal students of its Government Ashram School trekked 66 km for two days and one night to the tribal development
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India yet to meet goals set at summit for children
Has a whole generation of children lost out on its basic rights like education, nutrition and health care? It would appear so as the deadlines for meeting the targets have been pushed back by five to
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Tribal areas to be developed: Nadda
Mr Jagat Prakash Nadda, Health Minister, had said the Centre and the state government are committed to speedy development of tribal and backward areas and a separate tribal ministry has been set up
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Study points out 'double bonding' in brick kilns
Although Jalandhar sports good industry has missed major export orders on the issue of employment of child labour, a recent study suggests that children involved in sports good industry are better
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Children comprise 50% of Jharkhand's workforce
Child Labour is rampant in the newly formed State of Jharkhand with nearly 50 per cent of the workforce comprising of children below 14 years, according to the data prepared by an NGO. The survey was