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 …
To empower women, especially those belonging to weaker sections of the society, and to facilitate their participation in the national mainstream, the Delhi Government will be launching a "Stree Shakti" project under the Bhagidari scheme this coming Sunday. Under this project, intervention in health, literacy and income generation would be …
Child labour thrives in India despite a whole plethora of punitive as well as prohibitive laws. In the absence of a political will, all efforts in the past to eliminate the curse of child labour have failed and the situation has been aggravated with the succeeding years. It would be …
The Department of Public Instructions will conduct a census of children who are in the age group of 3 to 14 years, from February 14 to 16 throughout Karnataka. The exercise is undertaken to identify children who are not getting pre-primary and primary school education and ensure that these children …
Light House, a voluntary development organisation, recently launched a project in Rangpur (Bangladesh) aiming at removing child labourers from tobacco and bidi industry and improving their socioeconomic condition.
Althought the Madhya Pradesh government claims to be a champion of Dalits, tribals and the weaker sections, 45 families of the Bega tribe find themselves refugees in their homeland.
Even five years after the Tamil Nadu Government spotted hundreds of child labourers, most of them continue to toil in hazardous industries, while a Rs. 4.74 crore fund created for their rehabilitation is lying idle. Despite the Supreme Court directive and a legislative ban, the Government has rehabilitated only eight …
The Centre has released the funds, earlier withheld by it, for watershed projects in desert districts of Jaisalmer and Barmer. The funds were withheld after an inspection committee of the union agriculture ministry raised certain objections over improper implementation of the projects. The state government's detailed replies to the objects, …
International labour organisation signed an agreement with the consortium of employers associations for the elimination of child labour titled 'Cease child labour' on Friday in Andhra Pradesh.
Chief Minister of Karnataka S. M. Krishna has assured that four tmc of water will be released from the Kalammavaadi river into the Krishna by Maharashtra within a week. This was stated by former Union Minster Siddunyame Gowda. The Chief Minister had instructed the irrigation department secretary to get two …
According to the home ministry, Lodhas are one of the 52 primitive tribes facing extinction. While the 1991 census put Lodha numbers at 68,000, a more recent survey put their figure at 46,669. They are found scattered in the Medinipur, Bankura and purulia districts and are the third most backward …
The Assam Police will launch a six day sensitization campaign beginning on 24 Jan on project Aashwas that the force launched in November last year in collaboration with UNICEF. The sensitization campaign will include peace rallies, motivation campaign for self employment, academic assessment, inter village sports, medical campaign etc.
With just 5 months left until the 2002 FIFA World Cup kicks off in Japan and Korea, activists from around the world are increasingly putting pressure on FIFA and national football teams to make this championship the first international sporting event free of child labour and in compliance with fair …
Two model solar bus queue shelters, costing Rs 10 lakhs each, have been approved by the DTC Board. The shelters, which seek to do away with the noisy and polluting diesel generators through use of solar panels, would be installed on Delhi's Fleet Street, Bahadurshah Zafar Marg.
Despite attempts by the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas to restrict the use of compressed natural gas by private vehicles, Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) is continuing to promote the gas as a clean eco-friendly fuel and trying to improve its image in the eyes of the citizens through …
The Pakistan government has been asked to implement conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and abolish all discriminatory laws against women. This was demanded by leaders of All Pakistan Federation of Trade Unions while speaking at a seminar held.
Samridhi, an organisation operating at Thakurdwara, near Palampur, in Kangra district, has brought a discernible change in the socio economic lot of women of Kangra and Chamba districts. Being the first women's cooperative of Himachal Pradesh, it has emerged as a force to reckon with during the past five years.
The school children of Pakistan and social workers, under the banner of Sindh Development Society, Al-Falah Samaji Tanzeem, Sehrish Nagar Welfare Association and National Commission for Justice and Peace , staged a rally against child labour. Speaking at the rally, Ilyas Khokhar, Ghaffar Malik and Mehboob Abro called upon the …
The Karnataka government's reaffirmation to eradicate child labour by 2007 is indeed a welcome aspiration. Given that the state alone has around 11 lakh children under the age of 14 working in various sectors, some of which fall under the hazardous category, as also many employed in the domestic sector …
More than 3.3 million children are victim of child labour in Pakistan and most of them are being employed by various gangs for smuggling and drug trafficking. This was stated by speakers at a one-day seminar organized by SPARCO (Society for the Protection of the Right of the Child) here …
The Union Tribal Development Minister, Jeol Oram, has announced a special sanction of Rs. 100 crores from the Centre to Gujarat for the welfare of the tribals in the State.
