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 …
In a bid to eradicate child labour from the country, the Labour Minister has decided to extend the National Child Labour Project (NCLP) to 33 more districts and has asked the Planning Commission to allocate the remaining Rs 66 crore of the 9th plan.
In its bid to get Gurgaon declared a 'Zero Tolerance Zone for Child Labour', the SNS foundation has expressed its desire to join hands with progressive minded schools managements and their respective Parents Teachers associations. The foundation said that the step would convey to all Gurgaonites their collective commitment to …
Rajasthan successfully experiments with the concept of bal panchayat, which involves children in the decision-making process at the village panchayat level.
Shocked over the latest incident, the fourth in three months, of a fire in a CNG run bus at Nehru Place in South Delhi on Wednesday , the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) today demanded that the Union Government immediately begin "safety inspection programme" and "issue proper guidelines for …
The Government has received a pat from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for its "successful efforts to combat bonded labour." Though the ILO has taken toe of India's two decade-long efforts to measure and eradicate the problems of forced or compulsory labour through a range of initiatives, the accolades have …
Nepal's Parliament has banned bonded labour, following up a government fiat proscribing the oppressive practice to speed up the rehabilitation of freed slaves. The government had banned the practice of bonded labour, called Kamaiya, last year by fiat. But the freed Kamaiyas have not yet been rehabilitated.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) signed an agreement with the Child Development Society (CDS) to combat child labour in Nepal, states a press release issued by the organisation.
The British aided 100 million pound(Rs. 700 crores) rural livelihood project is expected to cover 17 tribal districts with an estimated population of 12.5 million. According to the project concept note these districts are covered by the major integrated tribal development project, but do not find themselves included in the …
The Society for the Protection of Rights of the Child (SPARC) has appealed to the UN Security Council to integrate specific measures to prevent the use of children as soldiers in the impending conflict in Afghanistan.
The Indian People's Tribunal on Environment and Human Rights has charged the Madhya Pradesh government with blatantly violating the human rights of tribals and crushing their just struggle for tribal rights in Bagli tehsil of Dewas district.
A grand council of representatives of about 30 tribals in Kerala will be meeting in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday to chart out agitation programmes to press their demand for land and employment. The Joint Action Council of Adivasis and Dalits said in a statement here today that the council would deliberate …
The Indian People's Tribunal on Environment and Human Rights (IPT) has concluded that there was no justification for the firing on tribals in Dewas district earlier this year in which at least four persons were killed.
The Andhra Pradesh State government is collecting the data of children below 14 years of age with an intention to eradicate child labour within four years and to achieve cent per cent literacy among children in five years, chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has announced.
Sehba Musharraf, wife of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, has said she would henceforth work for the upliftment of the South Asian girl child and promise to raise her voice to articulate the cause of the children.
Eighty-one Delhi government buildings are harvesting rain water this monsoon. The harvested water will come in handy the next summer. According to Delhi government, a cross-section of buildings--from schools and offices to fire stations have been chosen to implement the water harvesting project. However, work is still going on in …
The Union Government has pooh-poohed Delhi Government's contention that there is not enough gas supply or stations in the Capital to meet the demands of CNG-run vehicles currently operating in the city. Claiming the CNG stations are "well equipped" to meet the demand, the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural …
The International Labour Organisation has granted Rs 1.5 crore to the federation formed of various trade unions for the implementation of a child labour elimination project in Andhra Pradesh.
A 23- year-old Italian protester was shot and killed today by a police officer during a riot less than two miles from a gathering of leaders of the world's largest industrialized nations, who were protected by a 13-foot fence that anti-globalization demonstrators had vowed to breach. The killing in Genoa, …
No one will be surprised by the now customary anti-globalisation protests that are certain to coincide with the Group of Eight heads of state summit in Genoa. But we should all be alarmed when political leaders start to adopt the protesters' tactics, using bogus sloganeering rather than logical argument regarding …
A two day workshop on report of 'Child Labour' organised by the Human Rights and Environment Forum in association with UNICEF concluded in Biratnagar (Nepal). More than 75 percent of child labourers are aged between 10 and 15 and even six year olds were also working as child labourers.
