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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State of World Children Report 2003 launched in Narsingdi
The launching ceremony of the State of World Children Report 2003,jointly organized by Narsingdi District Administration and UNICEF, was held at local Circuit House
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State to moot law on child labour soon
Any person who is below the age of 15 and is not attending a school would be considered either a child labourer or a bonded worker in the new legislation that is expected to be ready for presentation
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Child zari workers explore joys of written word
Buried in the dusty bylanes of Dharavi are over 10000 tales of lost childhood. Here children work for over 15 hours in the 250-odd zari workshops. Many of them are under 14. The Child Labour Act
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Federation of tribals formed
Andhra Pradesh state level federation of tribals was constituted with Communist Party of India national secretary A B Bardhan as the federation's first general secretary and former legislator M Budhu
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Anthony silent on tribal land issue
Insensitivity of the political establishment to environmental issues is the biggest tragedy in Kerala nowadays. And it was on display at the latest Cabinet briefing of the Chief Minister, A.K.
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Report unravels bonded child labour in silk sector
A recent study by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) on bonded child labour in India's silk industry has found that nearly one lakh children work in Karnataka's silk industry
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Freedom from child labour by 2007: CM
Chief Minister S M Krishna on Monday said Karntaka should be free of child labour by 2007, and it is the responsibility of the Government departments, parents and community members to work in this
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Probe sought into firing on adivasis
Members of the Opposition LDF brought the proceedings of the Kerala Assembly to an early halt demanding a judicial inquiry into the police firing on Adivasis at the Muthanga Wildlife Sanctuary in
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Muthunga: UDF rejects probe demand
The UDF upheld the Chief Minister, A.K. Anthony's position rejecting the demand of the Opposition and the senior Congress leader, K Karunakaran for a judicial probe into the Muthunga action which led
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Arundhati Roy supports tribals cause
A couple of days after the police firing on tribals in Wayanad district of Kerala, the Booker Prize winner author, Arundhati Roy, lent her voice to their "struggle for land and justice". In a letter