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 …
govt urged to take effective steps: The Karnataka Chapter of Campaign Against Child Labour (CACL-K) has urged the State government to bring amendments to Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation Act) 1986, to give it more teeth to tackle the issue of child labour more effectively.
Even as the city is situated in an ideal location with the mighty Brahmaputra flowing by it and an enviable reservoir of ground water beneath it, Guwahati, the lone B-2 city of the NE Region and the capital of Assam is today not in a position to supply its over …
Fifty years after Independence and irrespective of many laws pasased for their protection, 370 million children in India are still struggling to break free from the shackles which bind them to different forms of exploitation and their cries for help fall on deaf ears.
One year after a State sponsored survey provided these startling statistics on the plight of bonded labourers in the Tamil Nadu, things are not exactly cut out for the State's proposed rescue plan. A Rs 5 crore sanction may not help much unless the apathetic Revenue Divisional Officers (RDO) - …
An NGO, Shramjeevi Sangathana, has nailed the lie of the Maharashtra Government that there have been no bonded labourers in the State since 1992. The Sangathana recently rescued a group of labourers from Vandre village, forcing the Government to revise its stand. In its latest performance budget, the Maharashtra Government …
The hunger-strike by some senior legislators, swamijis of various mutts and several senior citizens of Bagalkot district demanding better and sympathetic rehabilitation package for those who would be displaced by the Upper Krishna irrigation project has caused tension in and around the city and made the government take note of …
A special report on lost empire that 300 labourers and a six-member team of archaeologists have made it their mission to rediscover. After seven long years of hope and sweat they have stumbled on to something - something really big. Dholavira, in the middle of the Khadir island, along the …
A legislation to prevent the employment of children in hazardous industries, like match and fireworks factories and tanneries, has been mooted at an UGC-sponsored State-level seminar on 'Child rights and child abuse', organised by the Department of Sociology of the Gandhigram Rural Institute (GRI) recently.
As little as 9 per cent of the total projects, under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) are being undertaken in the slums of the national Capital while the infant mortality rate (IMR) is three times higher in these areas than the city average, says a new study, entitled "Children …
the residents of a West Delhi colony have moved the Delhi High Court demanding the shifting of Rajputana Rifles firing range to ensure their safety. The residents are irked over the authorities' inaction to stop the threat posed by stray bullets from the Army's firing range, which has killed a …
Space Shuttle Columnbia's astronauts began killing and dissecting rats yesterday to see how the animals' brains changed after a day of weightlessness. Four white adult rats were targeted for quick dissection. Each was launched on Friday with temperature and heart rate sensors embedded in their heads. Scientists say that the …
The Union ministry of water resources is not clear about the decision of the government to "adopt a national water policy which privides for effective and prompt settlement of disputes and their time-bound implementaiton" as enunciated in its national agenda and President's address to both Houses of Parliament.
Pakistani children are being illegally employed to stitch soccer balls bearing the logo of the World Cup finals in France, breaching international child labour agreements Dutch news agency reported. Children under the age of 14 are stitching soccer balls in Sialkot, an area of Pakistan that has cornered some 75 …
Bangladesh is updating the studies and findings on a proposed multi-million dollar barrage on the river ganges planned to be constructed to prevent flooding, irrigate crop land, remove water salinity and preserve ecology, officials said on Friday. They said the updating of the studies, conducted by different firms, will be …
The tussle between the two adivasi organisations of Nimar region, is likely to restart as workers of both these organisaions, it is learnt, are busy in preparing their strategies for the same. The root cause of it was the report of a Delhi based organisation, which levelled serious allegations against …
Child labour assumes the proportion of a social problem, as at arrests or distorts the national growth process and prevents the child from attaining its all-round development.
A large section of human rights activists fear that the much-touted Global March Against Labour led by jetsetting social worker Kailash Satyarthi has played into the hnands of Western industrial interests.The march which is due to arrive in the city on Wednesday and is being welcomed by the Delhi chief …
Child labourers from 98 countries participating in the Global March Against Child Labour will arrive in New Delhi on Thursday. Celebrity human rights activists Bianca Jagger and Kerry Kennedy Cuomo will join the march which will converge at Geneva where the ILO conference on child labour is going to be …
The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Haryana Chief Secretary and two former district magistrates of Faridabad to show-cause why contempt proceedings should not be initiated for not implementing its orders on the abolition of bonded labour in the State since 1983.
