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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One in six children in the world is illiterate, says US NGO
Kailash Satyarthi brings a depressing message to Washington city already under siege by thousands of antiglobalisation protesters and dark nimbus clouds. "One in every six children in the world is
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Polytechnique to provide tribals with employment opportunity
The Human Resource Development ministry has selected 50 institutes in the Maharashtra state to implement its scheme of community polytechniques which aims to generate employment opportunities among
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Child labour to go: Mohan
The Andhra Pradesh State will formulate a comprehensive policy to eradicate the practice of child labour. This was announced by Labour Minister Babu Mohan while addressing a seminar on "Eradication
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Tribal resolution against globalisation
About 15000 tribals and Dalits of Madya Pradesh, including a large number of women, passed a resolution saying they will not allow any bid to evict them from their lands and forests.
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Industry, TUs join hands to end child labour
In a first of its kind programme in the country, International Labour Organisation in association with the Andhra Pradesh state government, is test running a project to abolish child labour in Andhra
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Paradox in child labour policies
All governments speak about the need for eradication of child labour. But, the irony is that the Industrial Disputes Act says that child labourers could be allowed to work only up to 7 pm in any
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40 countries to work for universal child development
A Master Plan on universal child development in on anvil. The plan, which will see participation of 40 counties, will contain details of strategies and actin plans for the overall development of
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'Punjab kids do well, women trail'
Children in Punjab are better off than their counterparts in the rest of the country, while their women are worse off, according to the draft of Punjab Human Development Report, 2001. The report that
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Tribals at God's mercy
This tribal area barely 12 kilometers from Mungawali sub-division has no electricity connections even after 55 years of independence, something contrary to Madhya Pradesh state government's claims as
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70 schools to eliminate child labour soon: Collector
The Andhra Pradesh government is planning to set up 10 residential bridge schools and 60 non residential schools to eliminate child labour in the Hyderabad city said Hyderabad district collector