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 …
A team of United Nations Leadership Academy University has described the development initiatives in Madhya Pradesh launched with community participation as an example worthy of emulation.
UNICEF has selected six towns of Haryana, including Sonepat district for providing financial assistance to those living below the poverty lien during the current financial year.
In a startling revelation, a report released by the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research University along with State government and Unicef, has said that teachers too contribute to the malady of child labour.
A division bench of the Kerala High Court today directed the State Government to initiate, wherever necessary or warranted, proceedings for a surcharge to recover the loss caused to the local bodies from those responsible for the improper implementation of the Peoples Plan programme and to ensure that the same …
The Delhi High Court has given an extension of three months to the Muncipal corporation of Delhi to complete the scrutiny of hawkers' applications for licenses. Mr Justice Manmohan Sarin gave reprieve to the MCD after its standing counsel, Mr S Mukherjee, told the court that corporation had so far …
In a major initiative to develop its vast stretches of dryland, Karnataka has launched a comprehensive project for watershed development at a cost of Rs 690.27 crore with World bank assistance. Under the first phase of the ambitious project, which was formally commissioned by Karnataka's agriculture minister T B Jayachandra, …
Donors have committed more than $6 million to be spent over three years in sector specific projects for elimination of child labour in Pakistan, in addition to total commitment of $700,000 for the country programme of International Labour Organization.
The ochre of tiles that provide the roofing for many a happy home hides a tale of blood and tears of the young girls who make them. As the tiles bake in the kilns, they burn to cinder the lives of several children. Over 150 children are employed in 20 …
A high powered team from the International Labour Organisation started an unprecedented investigation of what it has described as 'rampant' forced labour in Burma in what some observers see as a critical test of the military government's reforming intentions.
The Haryana Government would spend about Rs 63.33 crores under the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme (ICDS) during the current financial year.
As many as 45 groups of corporate houses, business associations and employers organisations of Andhra Pradesh have formed a consortium of sorts to fight the bane of child labour.AP has the highest number of child labourers in the country.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) called on world leaders to stop the massive squandering of human potential by neglecting the needs of very young children. In its annual report on the state of the world's children, Unicef says investment in the first three years of life reaps huge personal …
The world's 300 million indigenous people, half of whom live in Asia, rank among the world's poorest and most deprived, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said today.
The government has come out with detailed guidelines for the use of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as automobile fuel. As per a gazette order containing the guidelines, only fixed cylinders will be allowed in vehicles as fuel tanks for the use of LPG as automobile fuel and these cylinders will …
Like most parts of Chennai, Pammal also suffers groundwater. Yet, some residents have not felt the pinch thanks to rainwater harvesting(RWH). RWH structures installed in their residences had assured them adequate groundwater supply with t he recent rains recharging the acquifer.
A National Policy and Plan of Action for the abolition of bonded labour and rehabilitation of those freed from this curse was approved by the Pakistan cabinet here on Wednesday. It defines policy strategies, activities and responsibilities of different agencies for the elimination of bonded labour, an official announcement said.
The final report of the Working Group on 'Empowering the Scheduled Tribes' has called for a comprehensive national tribal policy to safeguard the tribal interest, particularly that of the primitive groups, displaced tribal and their rehabilitation.
In the run-up to the Global Movement for Children and the UN General Assembly Special Summit on Children, five regional conferences are being organised by the Indian Council for Child Welfare (ICCW).The initiative will be supported by the UNICEF and an NGO, The Plan International.
