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 …
Report : Statistics show that child labourers in Nepal have doubled in the past four years. According to a newly released report, there are about one million child labourers in Nepal at present.
A campaign to champion the cause of some 250 million children worldwide who are forced to work for survival was launched in Manila when thousands of children from various parts of Asia held a march to protest against this pernicious form of exploitation. The Manila event will be followed by …
An apex body of carpet exporters have petitioned the United States government to exempt Indian carpets from the ambit of a recent amendment prohibiting import of goods produced by child labour. The government-sponsored Carpet Export Promotion Council (CEPC) sent a high-level delegation to Washington to appraise the US authorities of …
The sarpanch of Kalva in Orvakal Mandal of Kurnool district, Mrs. Fathima Bi will receive an award from the U.N. Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan, at New York next month. This was formally announced by the Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Dr. Brenda G. MsSweeney, during …
The government of Nepal and the US Agency for International Development has signed an amendment adding US$2 million to the Strategic Objective Agreement for increased women's empowerment. This amendment brings the total for the women's empowerment agreement to US $ 12 million.
Following the dry spell which has been plaguing the state over the last few days, the state government has come up with a scheme to economise use of water throughout the state. With effect from September phased water cuts are to be implemented in the areas worst affected ,Narmada development …
More than 10 per cent of the nearly 800,000 diamond and gemstone workers in India are children as young as eight years of age, who work for a pittance polishing and cutting the gems without employment cards or pay slips, according to the Trade Union World.A video casstee produced by …
International Labour Organization (ILO) and the UN Children's Educational Fund (UNICEF) announced a programme to combat the bonded labour problem in Nepal. The programme entitled:"Towards elimination of (bonded) child labour in Nepal", will be implemented in nine districts.
Permits for entry to Aboriginal land in Australia should be scrapped and territory governments should be able to acquire Aboriginal land for public purposes, a review of the Northern Territory Land Rights Act says. The review by a former Labor backbencher, Mr John Reeves, said land councils should be replaced …
The Punjab government will spend an amount of Rs. 1.3 billion on improvement of water supply schemes and provision of water for irrigation purposes during the current fiscal to achieve the goal of self-sufficiency in agricultural production in the province of Pakistan.
The National Human Rights Commission has identified six areas including Telangana (AP) and Kalahandi (Orissa) which need priority attention in eradicating bonded labour and drawn up an action plan to tackle the menace.
The first meeting of the National Human Rights Commission's Central Action Group on bonded labour has decided to identify the districts where the practice is acute and organise a workshop for the magistrates of those districts to sensitise them.
The Federal Government of Australia is trying to water down the United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples after attacks on the UN initiative by the One Nation Leader, Mrs Pauline Hanson. Cabinet has decided to oppose a clause in the draft declaration supporting 'self-determination'' for indigenous peoples. …
Adidas-Saloman said an internal investigation had found no evidence that sub-contractors had used prison labour in China to produce footballs. The German sports goods company suspended orders for balls made in China last month after reports emerged on the eve of the World Cup linking production to a Chinese prison …
US scientists have discovered evidence to support the view that life may have first evolved based on RNA, rather than its better known genetic cousin DNA. RNA transcribes DNA's code, producing proteins. But in order for RNA to replicate, proteins called enzymes are needed to catalyse the formation of nucleotides, …
Scientists have found that the earth's atmosphere has shrunk by eight kilo metre in the last 40 years, possibly as a fall out of accumulation of green house gases. Researchers of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, probing 40 years of data gathered at the Antarctic peninsula and the Falkland …
The US Government will provide an additional amount of US dollars 500,000 to support the implementation of the second phase of the MOU on elimination of child labour in garment industries of Bangladesh.
The Balika Samriddhi Yojna (girld child scheme), launched in 1997 to elevate the status of the girl child born to a family living below the poverty line, has failed to make a headway due to severe financial crunch. The funds required to implement the scheme effectively was estimated at Rs …
According to research carried by CWIN, an NGO working for child welfare, 15 per cent of the total children in Nepal are engaged in hazardous work. 4,50,000 children are among the nine million children involved in hazardous work.
