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 comprehensive two-volume dossier on environmental issues, events, policies, practices and challenges in India, along with statistics on environment-related facts.
This book presents a national overview of the startling array of challenges faced by India - including pollution and waste generation. The book demonstrates how all natural resources, from land and forests to water and biodiversity, are under immense pressure and in turn, compounded poverty. Rapid industrial, agricultural and urban …
As part of the girl child week, being held from September 20 to 26. Unicef has decided to bring into focus, the issus plaguing this section of the society through Meena, an animated film series, featuring a 10-year-old character with the same name. To give a further boost to the …
The Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) and the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) have joined hands to launch a pilot project on Women's Development and Empowerment.
The National Foundation of India, a non Government organisation, has urged people not to use fire crakcers during Diwali in a bid to discourage child labour. The NGO has also launched an awareness programme among school children in urban areas to educate them about the working conditions of children employed …
Childline, a project to help abused, exploited, homeless and all such children in distriess, was lunched at Jehangirpuri in north Delhi through a non-govenrnmental organisation, Prayas, on Friday. The project, sponsored by the Union ministry of social justice and empowerment and patronised by the National Human Rights Commission, will provide …
Molten volcanic rock could be used to produce electricity in future. A team from Sandia National Laboratory in --Albuquerque, New Mexico , has begun exploratory drilling at Mammoth Lakes in California. It plans to find out how deep the molten rock, known as magma, lies and how it could be …
After two decades of court battles, residents of Osaka's Nishi-Yodogawa Ward suffering from air pollution came to a legal compromise with the national government and the Hanshin Expressway Public Corp. Wednesday. With the arbitration of the Osaka High Court, the national government promised to remove traffic lanes from Route 2 …
The Municipal corporation of Hyderabad (MCH), which paints the city green with hoardings calling for a "clean and green city", is the main culprit among government departments when it comes to atmospheric pollution caused by exhausts from vehicles. In all, 63 per cent of the 1061 petrol-driven and only 26 …
One third of children or 40 million born each year in the world are at risk of being deprived of their rights because they are not registered at birth, Unicef's 1998 report "The Progress of Nations' has said.
Approved by the World Bank, the third phase of the International Development Agency (IDA) assisted Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) project of the Department of Women and Child Development (DWCD) will now cover 1,003 blocks in five states across the country, including 318 new blocks.
The World Bank has approved a $ 300 million loan for a women and child development project in Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh aimed at reducing the number of infant, child and maternal illnesses and deaths.
Prime Minister John Howard of Australia struck a deal with a key senator to adopt an Aboriginal land rights law, a compromise that enabled Mr. Howard to avoid calling early elections.
As many as 15, 105 child labourers employed are in hazardous units and 18,043 in non-hazardous units in UP. These child labourers were identified following an order of the Supreme Court last year.
As a measure of how dramatically the face of modern warfare has changed in the last decade, the Security Council has spent a day debating the rapid increase in the number of child soldiers worldwide and what, if anything, can be done to keep them away from combat. Experts say …
Even as the state government is yet to make a categorical assertion on the acquisition of tribal land for the controversial Sahara India Housing Project at Ambavane Village in Mulshi taluka, 36 tribals have alleged forced acquisition of their property. The tribals today filed an intervention application in the ongoing …
A group of NGOs, which were involved in conducting a survey in various parts of the Kerala to identify bonded labourers, have formed a federation for eradicating bonded labour in the State and has decided to call on the Chief Minister to explain the problems faced in releasing and rehabilitating …
Taking cognizance of the fact that more than 250 million children between five and 14 years have to work wither full time or part time in the developing countries alone, the new draft convention on child labour adopted at the 86th International Labour Conference, which concluded at Geneva on Friday, …
