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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Continued exploitation of tribals regretted
All-India Tribal Writers Forum president Dr.Ram Dayal Munda regretted that tribal population (budakattu jananga), which represented 10 percent of the country's total population, remained outside the
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Public hearing on child labour in looms
Campaign Against Child Labour Tamil Nadu would organise a public hearing on employment of children in the silk weaving sector in Kancheepuram on January 21. According to a rough estimate of the CACL,
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UK- funded tribal project launched in Arunachal
A research project titled "Tribal Transition' a collaborative project between the School of Oriental and African Studies, The British Museum, the government of Arunachal Pradesh, the Centre for
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Call to end child labour
A signature campaign has been launched by voluntary organisations to
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Jogi's 290 crore package for tribal districts
The Chhattisgarh Government announced a Rs 290 crore special package for development of the tribal dominated districts of Surguja, Koriya and Jashpur. This comes close on the heels of a similar
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Orissa Govt taking KBK miseries seriously
With a view to stem the rising tide of tribal unrest, the Orissa Government is likely to step up the pace of its welfare programmes in the Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput (KBK) region. Complaints with
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Tribals work as bonded labourers on their own lands
Ignorance is bliss, goes the saying. But not for a large number of the Paliyar tribals in the Palani hill range in Tamil Nadu. They are working as bonded labourers in coffee and other plantations in
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Bonded labour: 'India failing to protect rights of children'
The Indian Government is failing to protect the rights of hundreds of thousands of children who toil as virtual slaves in the country's silk industry, the Human Rights Watch said in a new report
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30,000 children engaged in Kancheepuram silk weaving sector
There is largescale exploitation of child labour in the systematically decentralised manufacturing process connected with weaving of Kancheepuram silk sarees, Tamil Nadu observed jury members of the
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Programme to eradicate child labour launched
World Education has launched "Bright Future", a programme to struggle, through education, against child labour. The programme was launched considering the lack of education as the main cause of the