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 and a major increase in international remittances. The report highlights that international migration remains a driver of human development and economic growth, highlighted …
With barely a week left for World Cup 2002 to begin in Korea and Japan, the Bachpan Bachao Andolan and the Global March Against Child Labour today protested against FIFA's alleged failure to comply with norms prohibiting the use of child labour in the production of footballs and other goods …
A unique revolution is sweeping the rural areas of the tribal dominated Bastar in Chhattisgarh. All rural women the backbone of the domestic economy between 10 and 75 years have been insured under the Rajrajeshwari Mahila Kalyan Bima Yojana. The scheme is being run in collaboration with private insurance companies.
Every year thousands of tender hands work to promote pollination of cotton flowers as part of an exercise to manufacture hybrid seeds in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. At least a thousand children from various villages of Cuddapah district go to work in cotton seed farms where they toil day …
The Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit today stressed the need for Residents Welfare Associations to take up Rain Water Harvesting Schemes in their respective areas as a means of overcoming water scarcity. Speaking the inauguration of Rain Water Harvesting Scheme at Panch shila Cooperative House Building Society under the Bhagidari …
The International Labour Organisation in its global report under the follow up to the ILO declaration on fundamental principles and rights at work, has found evidence that home based work involving subcontracting of child labour is increasing all over the world.
Children still work hard and for long hours earning minimal wages in dingy factories to provide for the family meal. The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1968, is just for archive statistics. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) envisages an important role for the legal …
Be it Afghanistan, Brazil, Sierra Leone or India, children poured out similar tales of courage, despair, hopelessness, resilience and faith. They were speaking at the UN General Assembly's Special Session on Children held in New York that ended on Friday. An unprecedented meeting dedicated to the world's children, the path-breaking …
The Delhi government's Eco-Club project is doing very fine. In a mix of about 1200 schools and colleges, the teachers and students have been yoked into the job of keeping their surroundings green and clean. Apart from half-day training programmes the experts on pollution of air, water and forests and …
A representative of the National human rights commission(NHRC) will tour Kurnool district on Thursday for an on the spot assessment of children working as bonded labourers in the district of Andhra Pradesh, according to reports.
There are over 1.5 lakh child labourers languishing in slavery in different parts of Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh alone, according to preliminary estimates.
New estimates from the International Labour organisation suggest that 246m children around the world-one in six of all children aged 5 to 17 are involved in forms of child labour that the ILO wants abolished.
The Andhra Pradesh government informed that the Child labour Act, 1986, defines the 'child' as a person who had not completed his or her 14th year of age.
Tribals would be reduced to a minority ' in their own land'' if 'infiltration continues unabated' in Nowrangpur district (Orissa) president of Dalit Samaj Mr Jagabandhu Majhi said. If the administration did not deport the identified Bangladeshi infiltrators, the tribal outfit would adopt a resolution in the gram sabha to …
Minister for tribal welfare M Manikumari on Saturday said that the Andhra Pradesh state government would spend Rs 412 crore for development of tribals allocating 55 per cent of the funds for development of educational facilities.
The current irrigation year will go into Cauvery records as the worst the Tamil Nadu having received the lowest quantum of water from Karnataka since the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal's interim award of 205 tmcft given in June 1991. As the quantum prescribed by the tribunal for May is 2.01 …
Himachal Pradesh has been given the first prize for excellent performance under the small Hydro Programme for the year 2000-2001. This has been intimated by the Ministry of Non Conventional Energy Sources to the state government.
The Himachal Industries Minister, Mr. Kishori Lal, has said that so far each member of the 311 out of the total 537 ousted families belonging to Dalhousie subdivision of Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh whose land had been submerged in the reservoir waters of Ranjit Sagar dam project in Dhar, …
There is rise in child labour in Simour district . There are more than 200 children working as porters, cobblers, vehicle cleaners and at dhabas and shops. Children below the age of 14 come to Himachal Pradesh from Shillai, Kaffota, Nahan, Garhwal, besides Nepal, UP and Bihar. Some of these …
The Karnataka State Government today denied Tamil Nadu's allegation that it had failed to release Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal's (CWDT) interim order. Against the interim award for the release of 205 tmc of water, the state had so far released 185.7 tmc of water, Water Resources Minister H K Patil …
The Central Government has accorded approval for the long-pending Mahadayi diversion project, Karnataka, which will help Karnataka utilise 7.56 TMC of water, according to Minister for Water Resources H K Patil. He added the State would soon initiate steps to take up work on the project, which would provide a …
