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 …
New avenues have been opened up in the direction of trans boundary cooperation between Nepal and India for what officials said "sustainable and long-term" bio-diversity conservation in the new millennium. At a press conference held to highlight the outcome of the Second Transboundary Consultative Meeting held in New Delhi, Director …
The fact that 2.6 million chidren are working in exploitative environments across Nepal has brought into question the efficacy of existing Labour Act especial its provisions for children. These provisions which were meant to prevent the employment of children has been ineffective. (editorial)
Low literacy rate among tribals has become a stumbling block to link them with the mainstream in Orissa. Even after five decades of independence, tribals are living in ignorance. The light of education has not reached them. This can be gauged from the fact that about 90 per cent of …
Report : Though the law prohibits employment of children, there are millions of child labourers in the country, according to researchers. A report "Child Labour Situation in Nepal" jointly launched in Kathmandu by International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Central Department of Population Studies (CDPS) reveals that 2.6 million children …
The government of Nepal introduced emission control laws to put an end to smoke belching vehicles in the capital city in 1997. Two years later, no one can claim that Kathmandu's air has become any cleaner. Clearly the measures taken to control air pollution have proved not only inadequate in …
The European Commission agreed to ask the European Court of Justice to impose a fine of more than $108m on France over its refusal to annul legislation banning women from working at night. If approved by the court, the fine will grow by more than 142,000 euro for each day …
More than 120,000 children, some as young as seven, are serving as soldiers in Africa's numerous wars, according to a report released at a conference in the Mozambican capital Maputo. "We have to tell our governments and rebel groups that enough is enough," Graca Machel, children's rights campaigner told the …
The Haryana Government has launched a special drive to scrupulously and strictly implement various schemes for the welfare of weaker sections and indigent families. The Chief Minister, Chaudhary Bansi Lal, has asked the Deputy Commissioner to personally monitor the progress of each social welfare programme every month.
As the Burmese woman told her story to Ka Hsaw Wa, a fellow refugee and member of the Karen ethnic minority, her anger began to build. It was 1992 and she had been forced to flee her village in southern Burma as part of relocation campaign by the Burmese Army …
Close on the heels of the powerful New York-based Human Rights Watch indicating Gujarat for the continued despicable practice of manual scavenging, the central government has taken a serious view of the failure of the state government to take action in rehabilitating the bhangis involved in an age-old custom Mahatma …
In a bid to eradicate child and bonded labour in the carpet belt of Uttar Pradesh, a special project and action plan have been launched at the initiative of the National Human Rights Commission.The project, prepared by the labour commissioner, envisages taking of inventory of all the looms located in …
Altogether 1,443 bonded labourers, mostly belonging to the Sullung tribe, had been freed in east Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh in the past two years, official reports said at Itanagar today. The labourers were freed at the behest of project director of Sullung welfare S S Yadav with the help …
Patents have been filed abroad for making basic Indian dishes and food ingredients such as "khoya", "dal" and "dosa" posing a threat to the traditional knowledge and expertise of women at New Delhi , warns a leading food rights activist. Participating in a round-table discussion at New Delhi today on …
The Supreme Court, in a ruling favouring lakhs of contract labourers, has held that they have a right to be absorbed in regular service after working for more than 240 days a year in an establishment.
An influential US lawmaker, who has been a long-time campaigner against child labour, has acknowledged progress by India and Pakistan in alleviating the problem. Senator Tom Harkin said the two South Asian countries, "compared to where they were when I started this in 1992, have come a long way." He …
Kerala House panel : The Kerala Legislative Committee for SC-ST welfare, which probed the veracity of a Malayalam daily's report on the dwindling population of the Malamuthan tribe in Malappuram district, has said that a majority of deaths in the tribal area were due to starvation and hunger-related diseases.
As many as 24,000 women of Sabarkantha and Panchmahals districts are to benefit from a Rs 31 -crore World Bank-aided programme to encourage self-employment projects. This was announced by state women's welfare minister Anandiben Patel in the state assembly on Tuesday.
A symptom of pain : Until recently, the incidence of child beggars was overshadowed by the more visible and voluminous trade of women and children being trafficked for prostitution. But experts see begging as the newest trend in child trafficking throughout the Mekong region of Cambodia.
Private charities that are buying freedom for enslaved children and young women in Sudan have reacted angrily to recent criticism of them from Unicef, the UN Children's Fund. "It is difficult to understand why Unicef should say our activities are intolerable," said John Eibner, head of Christian Solidarity International, of …
