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 …
As the United Nations hosts its special session in September this year, children all over the world will, for the first time, add their voice to decide what issues are of prime importance for them. Unicef's new campaign - 'Say yes to children' - departs significantly from earlier sessions of …
IPU: India is at 71st place as far as representation of women in Parliament is concerned with 9 per cent female members occuping its highest governing body, according to statistics released by the Inter Parliamentary Union(IPU).
The rehabilitation package for child workers announced by UP government on International Women's Day lacked special emphasis on girl child labour working in hazardous occupations.According to governemnt decision, the rehabilitation package would cover 73,000 child labour in 23 districts, where maximum number of child labour work.
Nepal's Deputy Prime Minister Ram Chandra Poudel, who is also the convenor of the Central Coordination and Monitoring Committee formed to identify problems faced by Kamaiyas and recommend ways for their rehabilitation said that his committee and those at the district level had already started their work.
President K R Narayanan today presented the National Award for Child Welfare, 1999, to five institutions and an individuals for their outstanding and voluntary contribution to the field of child development and welfare. The award instituted in 1979 carry a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh and a citation for …
Five years after a watershed conference in Beijing articulated what more than 180 nations agreed were universal rights of women, a weeklong follow-up meeting has ended at the United Nations with no significant victories for opponents who have tried to reverse those gains.
The typical worker at a clothing or footwear factory run by a multinational corporation in south-east Asia with poor education and training, but strong hopes of enhancing her skills through her job,according to a study of workers in Thailand and Vietnam. The Global Alliance for Workers and Communities, a joint …
President Clinton signed two international agreements today, one intended to prevent anyone under 18 from being sent to war and the other to protect children from exploitation by the sex trade and other forms of human trafficking. The two agreements Mr. Clinton signed are formally known as the Optional Protocol …
Bill Andresen is chairman of the International Great Lakes Coalition, which claims 4,000 members in the United States and Canada. The group contends lake levels already are manipulated to serve commercial interests, and that governments could do more to prevent extreme variations. State, federal and international agencies that deal with …
Various development and welfare schemes being prepared by the government for the upliftment of tribals merely exists in files and papers. None of the higher officials care to implement the schemes and even if the schemes are implemented by any means they are least bothered about its success.
The Nepal government has initiated the process of rehabilitation of the Kamaiya labourers in the district of Dang. In its landmark decision on July 17, the government had emancipated all the erstwhile bonded agriculture labourers languishing in the mid western terai belt of Nepal.
The Union minister of tribal afairs, Mr Jual Oram, has said Central probes will be ordered into atrocities against tribals in Kerala and an explanation sought from the state for non-utilisation of alloted funds. Much to the embarassment of the Left Front government, the minister, now on a visit to …
The tussar silk trade in Orissa, which sustains some 50,000 rearers and about 300,000 members of their families, has fallen on had days. Smugglers and black marketeers have done serious harm to tribal rearers and the trade. Faulty government policy and poor procurement prices are cited as the reasons that …
ILO: There are at least 90 million working children in the age group of five to 14 years in India, according to the International Labour Organisation(ILO).
Orissa, home to as many as 62 tribes, may soon lose a few of them, with some of these tribes facing serious of extinction. Not only has there been an overall decline in the population of some of these tribes, the ratio of tribals to the total population too has …
The number of migrants around the world has jumped to 130 millions and could grow relentlessly under the pressure of increasing globalisation, the International Labour Organisation said. Peter Stalker, author of an ILO study on the impact of globalisation on international migration told reporters the number of people who live …
UNICEF : Motherless babies, children forced onto the streets to work, and millions of other youngsters growing up without the security of a family pay a heavy price for poverty, UNICEF report said on Wednesday. Publication of "Growing up Alone: The Hidden Cost of Poverty," began an 18-month campaign by …
Pakistan, as one of the six initiator countries of Child Summit held in New York ten years back, will convene SAARC meeting in Pakistan soon to prepare an update report on condition of children in the region for UN General Assembly session in 2001. Dr Attiya Inayatullah, member of the …
