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 to be free of child labour by 2007
The State Government has decided to make Karnataka a 'child labourless State' by 2007. To achieve this objective, all support and co-operation was needded to end the child labour menace, said S.
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MNCs encouraging child labour in fields: Study
Several large national and multinational companies including Unilever, Monsanto, Syngenta, Advanta, Bayer and Emergent Genetics that produce and market hybrid cottonseed are involved in subtle ways
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Non-tribal areas may be included in tribal plan
The Himachal Chief Minister, Virbhadra Singh, has said that the State Government question of including nine non-tribal panchayats of the Bharmaur Assembly segment into the tribal sub-plan so that
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15-point plan for minorities' welfare
The Rajasthan State Minorities Commission has recommended effective implementation of the 15-point programme for minorities' welfare, while asserting that Rajasthan should be evolved as a "model
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Kerala may become child labour free
Kerala is in a race to become the country's first child-labour free state. The state will soon bring in a legislation making this effective, labour minister Babu Divakaran has said. A survey to map
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Antony gets Government nod on scheme for landless tribals
Kerala Chief Minister A K Antony on Monday announced that 12,196 hectares of vested forest land would be used for resettling landless tribals in the state. The State government's proposal for the
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Tribals held for encroaching govt-owned land near Alacode
In the continuing operation against encroachment of government land, police on Friday arrested 45 people, most of them tribals, who tried to foribly occupy a part of the State plantation corporation
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Adivasis demand the right to work
Drought relief programmes in Madhya Pradesh came under fire at a public hearing organised by the Adivasi Mukti Sangathan, a grassroots organisation based in Barwani district of Madhya Pradesh. Aside
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Child labour: Notice to Punjab
On a PIL filed by Volunteer for Social Justice, a Jalandhar based NGO, seeking direction to the State of Punjab for enforcing the provisions of Child Labour Act 1986 to stop the employment of
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Third phase of Adivasi struggle will be declared in Tvm: Janu
Adivasi Gothra Mahasabha leader C K Janu has said that the third phase of the agitation of Adivasis will be declared at Thiruvananthapuram after the conclusion of the Muthanga Sandesha Yatra on May