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 …
The earthquake-ravaged border district of Kutch is poised for a dramatic change. With 2002 fast approaching, about 158 villages in 10 taluks of this far flung and second largest district of the country would have women at the helm of affairs.
With the deadline for the first phasing out of diesel buses on their head, transporters are in a bit of a soup as they are far from getting CNG buses to make up for the diesel ones. The Supreme Court had said that the diesel bus fleet had to be …
The Centre has announced the launch of a development programme for women to be administered by the women and child development department. The Swayamsidha has a grandiose idea to empower women to demand their rights from family, community and government by increasing their direct access to, and control over material, …
Take a closer look at Tanyongpao fishing village in southern Thailand. It is creating a new brand of democracy. Free from the dictates of policymakers, local people are finding local solutions to local problems. Far from the epicentre of power in Bangkok, grass-roots governance is beginning to flourish.
Despite its flourishing agriculture and remarkable progress in allied industries like poultry and farming, Punjab has earned the dubious distinction of converting a large part of its farm workers into bonded labourers. It is surprising that a state which excels in agriculture and contributes millions of tonnes of grain to …
The Indian Oil Corporation has assured the Punjab and Haryana High Court that 131 families uprooted from Baholi village following the establishment of an oil refinery would be properly rehabilitated. 483 families had been affected at the time.
STEP, a Rs. 58-crore European Union-funded project, aimed at sustainable empowerment of two lakh tribals in four coastal districts, was launched by the Chief Minster, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu. Acronym for Sustainable Tribal Empowerment Project, it is a holistic development model aimed at helping the community to help themselves for …
The union minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Mr Ram Naik said the Centre would be soon bringing out advertisements that CNG would only be allowed in vehicles which have been registered as per the Supreme Court order. Mr Naik announced this at the side-lines of a seminar by Assocham …
A score of street children who ran away from the Navjivan Home in Vijayawada allege that they paid for their stay in the home with their blood and kidneys. The children were in the city to participate in Bachpan Utsav, a programme organised to celebrate International Child Rights Day at …
While the world observes Children's Day on Tuesday, Pakistan is faced with the problem of about 3.3 million children engaged in various forms of labour.
The District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) has emerged as a ray of hope for children belonging to hope for children belonging to under privileged families of Sirmour, Chamba, Kullu and Lahaul and Spiti Districts. Thousands of children in these districts have started going to the school.
A high-powered investigatory team from the International Labour Organisation that had unprecedented access inside Burma has dismissed the military government's claims to have abolished forced labour.
Kerala Tribal Intellectual Property Rights Bill is about to be introduced. This Bill seeks to set up a Tribal Intellectual Property Rights Commission (TIPRC) and a Tribal Medicinal Education and Research Institute to safeguard the traditional medicines of the tribes in the State.
According to the latest report submitted to the National Human Rights Commission by the state, a mere 39 child workers exist in the four big cities of Gujarat, Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot.
Going by the past record, the child labour data may hover around the data made available by the previous census reports. State wise break-up shows that Andhra Pradesh leads in child labour followed by Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. It is totally unrealistic to believe the correctness of this …
Come December and a group of 30 illiterate and women hailing from below the poverty line strata will don the role of rural reporters for community radio programmes in the backward Chittoor, Mahboobnagar and Vizianagrram districts(Andhra Pradesh).
International Labour Organization (ILO) and ministry of labour have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) worth $700,000 to implement International Programme for Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) for another three years in Pakistan on Wednesday.
The inevitable has happened. A reputed Central body has made it official that non tribals in Andhra Pradesh own more than half the land that should have exclusively belonged to the Scheduled Tribes.
The Arvari Sansad (parliament) is the first of its kind. Thousands of villagers living along the Arvari river have set up this unique forum to ensure that the waters of the river are not misused by unscrupulous businessmen.
