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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Action plan to eliminate child labour by 2007
Coming in time for the Anti-Child Labour Day on April 30, the Tamil Nadu State Action Plan for the Elimination of Child Labour has got the nod from the Chief Minister. The plan hopes to ensure that
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Orissa Govt's apathy destroying tribals
Lackaidaisical implementation of schemes has grossly undermined the Government's thrust for the development of tribals in Orissa with the result that the community which constitutes the largest
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Tribal land issue: Encroachments violate SC directives'
The Central Empowered Committee, constituted by the Supreme Court, has asked the Kerala Government to consider a quick, detailed survey of non-forest land available in Kerala State for hammering out
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Child labour to end by 2007, assures Sahib
The Union Government is committed to eradicate child labour from the country by the end of 2007. Apart from this, the Union Ministry of Labour will soon bring out a new legislation to ensure social
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CM for speedy completion of tribal area projects
The Himachal government is to consider hiring labourers in tribal areas for three months and not for one month keeping in view short season of work. Mr Virbhadra Singh, Himachal Chief Minister,
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Child labourers on rise in Srimangal areas
Child labourers have increased alarmingly in Srimangal. Children of 8-10 years of age are working in the workshops, Saw mills, garage, tea gardens and pulling
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Female bonded labour in AP seed farms
A new trend of employing female children as 'bonded labourers' has come into practice on hybrid cotton-seed farms in south India,a recent survey has revealed.Local seed farmers, who cultivate hybrid
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7,000 child labourers rehabilitated: Official
The Tamil Nadu State government has rehabilitated over 7,000 child labourers since 1997 through 243 transit-schools and initiated prosecution against nearly 550 employers in the last two years for
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Number of child workers rises
Despite assurances by successive governments regarding elimination of, or reduction in, child labour, and pledges of provision of both formal and non-formal education to these children , earning
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Child labourers given lessons, then sent back to work
Over one million children work in Maharashtra, many in hazardous conditions, in sugarcane factories and powerlooms