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 people have shown lukewarm response to the Rajkot municipal corporation's water conservation scheme. Out of the 10 lakh population, just one person has shown interest in it.
Indira Mahila Yojana and Mahila Samridhi Yojana - two of the programmes for women inherited by the current Government at the Centre - have been recast and combined to launch a new integrated Self-Help Group-based programme that is aimed at facilitating holistic empowerment of the fairer sex.
Diesel consumption in Delhi has come down by about 40,000 tonne to 1.2 million tonne (mt) during 2000-01 on account of increased consumption of compressed natural gas (CNG).While CNG sales in the city have almost doubled to 1.92 lakh kg per day in June from 99,000 kg per day in …
Swayamsiddha and Swadhar are the latest to join the lengthening list of schemes the BJP-led government has announced for women's welfare and empowerment.
Their tender hands no more had to do strenuous work for survival. The International labour organisation (ILO) has come to the rescue of millions of child labourers in Andhra Pradesh, who sans any education lead the life in a hard way. A unique five million dollar pilot project sponsored by …
Initiated by the International Labour Organisation, five pilot projects aimed at eradicating child labour from Andhra Pradesh would take off in early August.
The two-day workshop organized by the ILO-IPEC Project on Combating Child Labour in the Carpet Industry in Pakistan on self-evaluation/stakeholders began in Lahore on Tuesday. The workshop aims at assessing the project's performance and achievements to date with a view to identifying lessons learnt in order to apply corrective actions …
It is called "Blitzkrieg" or "Overkill," but it is not the latest Hollywood war epic. It is the scientific theory that prehistoric people moving for the first time into new geographical areas during their spread around the world invariably hunted large animals into extinction. New work by American and Australian …
Bangladesh has failed to successfully implement the Child Rights Convention (CRC) for child survival, protection and development, enunciated in a "World Declaration" in 1990, reports UNB.
Setting aside their differences on contentious issues, ministers incharge of women and child development from the SAARC nations are meeting in Kathmandu next week to assess the progress achieved in meeting the goals set at the 1990 world summit for children. They would also discuss reasons for failure or success …
The Union Minister for Tribal Affairs, Mr. Jual Oram, has stated that a comprehensive review of tribals is being under taken all over the country to ascertain their status. This would also address the controversial issue of the exclusion and inclusion of tribals in the Scheduled List.
Globalisation has not proved beneficial to the downtrodden communities in any part of the world despite it's tall claims, leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan Medha Patkar said on Sunday. Speaking at the public meeting against globalisation organised by the National Alliance Of People's Movement-Karnataka, she said globalisation had worsened …
The answer to clearing water of contaminants may not be to add more chemicals to it. A group of scientists in the US has been experimenting with ultrasound as an alternative.
Leelabai has made new friends today. There's Jagrani from Sitapur, Deep Lata from Kullu, Kalpana Gautam from Etawah, Chatiya Devi from Patna and Sheela from Harlan. It is their big occasion--all 300-odd representatives of the three tiers of the panchayat--to interact, discuss and share experiences.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $150,000 as technical assistance to Pakistan for the education and rehabilitation of working children and freed bonded labourers.
The world's population topped the 4,000-million mark during January and could double in less than 40 years, according to UN estimates. The latest edition of the UN Demographic Year Book put the total in mid-1974 at 3,890 million.
Mumbai is set to replace Tokyo as the world's most populous city by 2020, according to a study released by the Washington-based Population Institute. Mumbai, currently home to about 18 million people, will over the next two decades see its population grow to some 28.5 million, the institute said in …
Government has prepared development of schedule tribes, but the schemes have not been implemented properly. This is evident by the pathetic plight of the Kamar tribe.Spread in the areas of Selbehara, Kurradarhi, Piparahi, Bhari, Siyadehis and Degali, the Kamars are facing severe problems.
