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 …
Beijing+5 Country Report was released by Nepal's Ministry of Women and Social Welfare. The Country Report reviews "Nepal's progress in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) (which was released at the end of the Beijing Conference in 1995).
As part of the coordinated UN effort, UNICEF is requesting for US dollars 229.5 million from donor nations to deliver vital services to children and women in 16 countries of territories caught in armed conflict and natural disaster.
After centuries of oppression and neglect, tribals in the country still lead a faceless existence and seem to be heading for the worst, according to Magsayasay Award winner Mahasweta Devi.
A meeting of Nepal's Central Monitoring and Coordination Committee formed to look into the problems of Kamaiyas has decided to direct concerned District Development Committees (DDCs) to among other, provide a kattha of land to every family of the displaced bonded labours.
Many vehicles : The burgeoning traffic problem of Kathmandu city has been attributed to uncontrolled vehicle registration and lack of policy implementation. Traffic management experts gathered in Kathmandu discussed the traffic problems at an interaction programme on 'Carrying Capacity of Kathmandu Valley's Roads and Traffic Management' organised by Ministry of …
A highly classified intelligence report warns that deploying a U.S. national missile defense could prompt China to expand its nuclear arsenal tenfold and lead Russia to place multiple warheads on ballistic missiles that now carry only one, according to officials who have reviewed it.
A Maori tribe will become the biggest private landowner on New Zealand's South Island under a multi-million dollar land deal announced and funded by a land claim compensation package.
The Union minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Mr Arun Jaitley, has recommended amendments in the Copyrights Act to protect the interests of traditional and tribal artists of India. Inaugurating a workshop on "Rights of Tribals and Traditional Artists", organised by the Social Action Forum for Manav Adhikar, at …
KENYA will hold a post-enumeration survey at the end of this month to evaluate the August 1999 national population and housing census. The exercise, estimated to cost Ksh20.3 million ($270,000), aims to test the accuracy of data obtained and is likely to rekindle controversies that surrounded the enumeration. It will …
The Bachpan Bachao Andolan, the nucleus body of the South Asian Coalition for Child Servitude, plans to approach candidates contesting the Lok Sabha elections to place on record their commitment to eradicating child labour. Mr Kailash Satyarthi, founder and chairperson of the SACCS, said that candidates would be required to …
The International environmental group Greenpeace hailed the Philippine governments' approval of the Clean Air Act, which includes a total ban on incinerators, as an international environmental milestone. This decision sends out a very strong signal against the dumping of toxic technologies on developing countries like the Philippines, said Greenpeace toxic …
Dozens of activists gathered outside the World Bank headquarters yesterday vowing to fight a controversial new bank project on the mainland that they claim would harm minority Tibetans and Mongolians. "We want this project . . . stopped," Bhuchung Tsering, spokesman for the International Campaign for Tibet, told about 60 …
It is being projected as the biggest administrative exercise in the world. Two million enumerators under 400,000 supervisors will go on a house-to-house, hut-to-hut campaign throughout this vast nation, collecting information on matters ranging from religion and language to food habits and other personal details from nearly a billion Indians.This …
About 4,000 people, alleging they had been evacuated from Haldia to facilitate the building of the port, demonstrated for seven hours in front of the office of the Calcutta Port Trust's deputy chairman (Haldia), today. The demonstrators, under the banner of Haldia Udbastu Kshatigrasta Sangram Samiti, demanded rehabilitation for about …
A draft International Labour Organisation convention seeking an "immediate and universal ban" on the worst forms of child labour" - due to be agreed at this month's annual ILO conference-may be watered down under pressure from the US and UK governments, which believe it would prevent them from recruiting volunteers …
The International Labour Organisation(ILO) is going to adopt a new international convention aimed at an immediate universal ban on the worst forms of child labour.The convention is expected to be adopted at the 87th session of the International Labour Conference (ILC), to be held in Geneva from June 1 to …
India will be among 174 International Labour Organisation (ILO) member states aiming to adopt an international convention for an immediate universal ban on the worst forms of child labour including child pornography at the ILO's 87th session in Geneva next month (June 1 to June 17). According to ILO estimates, …
In spite of the Government's formal statements to the contrary, forced labour remains widespread in Myanmmar, says Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Office (ILO) in a report dispatched to members of the ILO Governing Body on 21 May. The report "regarding measures which the Government of Myanmar has …
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the two workers organisations affiliated to the two major political parties in Nepal, the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML, signed an agreement seprately to eliminate bonded child labour, according to a press release from ILO.
India and UNICEF signed an agreement on Monday under which UNICEF will provide a total of 300 million dollars for child welfare programmes in the country aimed at reducing low birth weight rate, maternal mortality rate and child labour.
