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 …
Thousands of tribals living in "forest villages" across Madhya Pradesh have been deprived of ownership rights over their land, according to a Betul-based tribals body, Shramik Adivasi Sangathan, as their villages are yet to be converted into "revenue villages".
An international convention to "ban the most intolerable forms of child labour", drafted by the ILO, will be put to vote tomorrow at Geneva. This will conclude the Global march against child labour that began in Manila on January 17 and converged on Geneva last week with around two hundred …
From South Asia, little Meena is set to travel the globe as an ambassador for Unicef, the UN Children's Fund. This girl from the world of animation is taking up the task of building awareness about the status of the girl child.Meena - a lively heroine of a Unicef multi-media …
Sindh chief minister Liaquat Jatoi has failed to garner the support of his Cabinet for the construction of Kalabagh Dam as not even a single minister is ready to come out in the favour of the project. Some provincial ministers have been threatened to quit if the fedral government does …
The Indian Associations of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (IAPPD) has instituted an award in memory of its chairman, Satpaul Mittal, to give recognition to individuals and institutions for outstanding contributions in the field of population and environment.
A previously unknown tribe of Indians believed to never have had contact with modern society has been spotted in the Amazon Jungle, officials with the National Indian Foundation(FUNAI) said.
India has proposed to work towards different sets of norms for developed and developing countries with regards to fundamental human rights at work at the plenary session of the 86th International Labour Conference, which is opening at Geneva on June 9.
The 86th annual International Labour Conference (ILC) got under way in Geneva recently in the company of hundreds of marchers for whom the conference was the final destination in a Global March that has crossed more than 100 countries this year.
The government is expected to endorse the draft of the International Labour Organisatio's convention on child labour. This is because the ILO is now focussing on putting a halt to "cetain forms of child labour", for the time being.
Andhra Pradesh construction mazdoor sangh, an affiliated wing of the Bharatiya mazdoor sangh, will admit about 240 child labourers in regular schools, as part of the International programmes on the elimination of child labour(IPEC).
Scores of youngsters ended a long march against child labour in Geneva on Saturday, demanding an end to the greed of bosses and the complicity of governments. Between them they had covered a total of 98 coutnries since starting from Manila in January, Sao Paolo in February or Cape Town …
The Nepalese government relaxed the standard for vehicular emissions without heeding to the recommendations made by the environmental experts with the Vehicular Emission Standard Review Committee (VESRC), the members of the committee charged.
The Clinton administration, acting at the behest of Mattel Inc. and other toy companies, is lobbying against European efforts to ban controversial chemical from teething rings and other toys for young children.
The Haryana Government is implementing an Integrated Women's Empowerment and Development Project with the assistance of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities at a cost of over Rs. 8.11 crores in Mahendergarh and Rewari districts.
Union Labour Minister Satyanarayan Jatia indicated that all necessary steps would be taken by the Centre, in cooperation with State Governments, to abolish the contract system practiced throughout the country by Indian and foreign companies.
An international trade union organisation has denounced the practice of child labour in Pakistan which it said occurs under dangerous conditions and violates international law. The International Conference on Free Trade Unions (ICTFU) said that about 7,500 children worked without protection in a factory making surgical instruments in the north-eastern …
Crew aboard the Mir space station will carry out an experiment designed to help develop drugs to fight cancer and immune system diseases Interfax said, citing a space official. Oleg Mitichkin, head of the medico-biological division at the Energiya Space Research Corporation, said a Progress M-39 cargo ship will carry …
Governor : The Karnataka State governor C Rangarajan cautioned that Polavaram project, proposed to be constructed across the Godavari river at an estimated cost of Rs 1200 crore, needed to be judged not merely from the economic viability angle, but also from the point of environment in view of massive …
Noted social worker and pioneer of watershed development Anna Hazare has been conferred with the prestigious "Care International Humanitarian Award" for 1998. The award was announced by Country Director of Care-India Tom Alcedo at a press conference here today.
In the wake of the interntional furore over the issue of children stitching footballs in Sialkot district of Pakistan, a special study team of an NGO has found that despite its problems, football stitching is one of the less hazardous forms of work children engage in and many families depend …
