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 …
The Centre has rejected a major recommendation of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) prohibiting the Government employees from hiring children below 14 years as domestic servants. NHRC sources said that though most of the states had responded favourably to the recommendation, the Union Government rejected it citing several reasons …
Aboriginal leaders have attacked the announcement that the Northern Territory could become Australia's seventh state in 2001, warning that it will lead to a further erosion of their rights. The Central Land Council director, Mr Tracker Tilmouth, said Aborigines had not been consulted and would fight to ensure their rights …
A Women's Development Group, STEPS, based in Pudukkottai district of Tamil Nadu, has been selected as the first recipient of the Dr. Durgabai Deshmukh Award for outstanding work on issues related to women's rights and empowerment.
Water supplies in a drought stricken province in central Vietnam are running out fast, triggering growing health fears. Quang province has already appealed for emergency aid as it struggles with its worst water crisis in almost a century.
The Central Government is assigning the entire responsibility for aquring land owned either by itself or an individual or the forest department to State Governments concerned for promoters of mega hydro projects. The issue of resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R;), associated with the execution of such projects will also be addressed …
A high-level central action group has been set up to study various aspects of bonded labour. The group, formed by the National Human Rights Commission , will submit periodic reports to the Supreme Court. On November 11, 1997, the Supreme Court has brought under the NHRC's purview the task of …
A controversy has risen over the number of child labour in the country. The figure provided by the states and Union territories peg it at only five lakh. But the Central government is not prepared to accept it. In the Centre's opinion, thif figure is less than a third of …
The reindeer-herding Sami people of northern Sweden have won an apology from the government for centuries of oppression. The Sami, who number about 70,000 are pushing for rights as an indigenous people.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees moved to defuse criticism of its management and financial practices, with a rebuttal of allegations raised by the Financial Times investigation into the organisation.
WB: While South Asia as a whole lags behind as far as the status of women is concerned, Pakistan in particular has one of the worst records in female health and education, says World Bank study.
At least 16 UN agencies, led by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) , have expressed concern over the fact that India ccounts for the largest number of child workers in the world. Though the country has several laws to teckle the issue, domestic legislation has been "largely ineffective" , they …
Canada's federal governmet has signed a landmark treaty with west coast Indians, giving a native group control for the first time of a majestic swath of pine forest, crystal streams and towering snowy peaks along with legal rights to run their own nation.
Months of rationing by local water authorities in Kuala Lumpur-made necessary by a dry 1997 and dangerously low reservoirs are taking an increasingly heavy toll on the citizens. Ecologists say the poor planning of the region's water supply infrastructure has deepened a crisis originally brought on by the relatively dry …
There has been a dramatic succession of deaths of child labourers in different occupations. Most of the deaths have been in industries/occupations that are legally prohibited which demonstrates the failure of child Labour Act.This is the conclusion of an non-governmental organisation, campaign Against Child Labour (CACL), after its three fact-finding …
New tax proposals may cause owners to examine the economy of running a diesel vehicle. The French government's 1999 budget proposals, would raise tax on the fuel and reduce the price advantage it enjoys over unleaded petrol. The move would affect about 7.5m cars.
according to a court judgement, almost 80 per cent of Australia's land could be subject to claims by aborigines. The Wik people of north Queensland had claimed title to pastoral land leased to white farmers in 1915. The court decided by a narrow majority in favour of the Wik people …
researchers at New York's Harvard University have successfully grown replacement skin, bladders and other body tissue in a technique that could open new doors to transplant surgery and treatment of birth defects in humans. The scientists say they have developed a way to harvest cells from specific parts of an …
quinoa ( Chenopodium quinoa ) is a high protein food crop which is eaten by millions of people in Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. Now two us agronomists, Duane Johnson and Sarah Ward of Colorado State University have been granted a patent on a particular variety of crop known as …
chungli , an industrial city of 300,000 people in Taoyan county, about 60 km from capital Taipei, is witnessing a poli-tical war over garbage. : great wall of trash' has been rising up in the city ever since the local authorities stopped collecting garbage bags from dumps in street corners …
ABORIGINES in Australia live 15 to 20 years less than the white population, says a recently published report citing data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. They are 15 to 18 times more likely to die of infectious diseases and their babies …
