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 …
New study finds lack of minority representation in environmental groups Leaders of environmental groups express concern over lack of diversity in staff following new study Minorities and people of color have not managed to break the “green ceiling” inside environmental organizations, and remain underrepresented on their staffs, according to a …
The tar ball phenomenon in Goa could be due to oil exploration activities from offshore oil installations, natural phenomenon from sea bed or from sea going vessels passing through the area. In a written reply in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Environment Prakash Javadekar said tar balls have been …
New Delhi : The Supreme Court has quashed the National Green Tribunal’s order asking ONGC and Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) to deposit R30 crore towards proposed rehabilitation of fishermen, who allegedly lost their livelihood due to laying down of the Uran-Trombay Jawahar Creek oil pipeline and the Uran-Trombay Gas …
MUMBAI: In an order that might perhaps stay the practice of challenging orders of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in the Bombay high court, a division bench of Justice A S Oka and Justice Chandurkar refused to entertain one such plea and instead told the petitioners to approach the Supreme …
Karnataka’s urban poor percentage is way higher than the national average and has been the same for nearly 30-odd years now. While the current national urban poor percentage stands at 26, the percentage in State is 32, according to a study by a senior researcher at the Institute of Social …
A review of the Open Working Group Report on Sustainable Development Goals from a Child Rights Perspective. People are at the centre of sustainable development and, in this regard, Rio+20 promised to strive for a world that is just, equitable and inclusive, and committed to work together to promote sustained …
Samsung Electronics said it has found "evidence of suspected child labour" at a factory of its Chinese supplier Dongguan Shinyang Electronics. The firm conducted an investigation into the supplier after New York-based campaign group, China Labor Watch, accused it of hiring children. The South Korean firm has "temporarily" suspended business …
The Kolhapur zilla parishad will observe World Population Day on July 11, after which it will observe world population stabilization fortnight from July 11. The Kolhapur ZP chief executive officer, Vijay Suryavanshi, said, "The country's population is increasing day by day beyond the sustainable limit and we must take precautions …
The World Population Day is an annual event observed on July 11 every year seeking to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. The date of observance was inspired by that of Five Billion Day …
Delhi has become the world’s second most populous city in 2014 after Tokyo, more than doubling its population since 1990 to 25 million, according to a UN report. The 2014 revision of the World Urbanisation Prospects launched on Thursday said that India is projected to add the highest number of …
Saudi Arabia has attracted more low-paid Indian migrants over the last 25 years than any other country in the Gulf region. Every day, close to 1,000 Indian low-wage migrant workers are provided with emigration clearances to travel to Saudi Arabia. They are recruited to work in cafeterias, supermarkets, construction sites, …
Sheer negligence on the part of authorities concerned in implementation of Forest Rights Act, 2006 has resulted in lakhs of forest-dwellers being deprived of their rights, alleged the officials of an International NGO while talking to reporters here on Wednesday. The NGO, Oxfam India has been working in Chhattisgarh for …
RAIPUR: When it comes to population growth, while Chhattisgarh has taken over its mother state, Madhya Pradesh, registering a growth rate of 22.59%, as compared to 20.30% of the latter, the population growth has declined in the Naxalite affected areas of the state in the last decade (2001-2011). According to …
Census figures point out that over 50 per cent of migration into the state was due to the availability of employment and business opportunitie at large. Mumbai, the sprawling megapolis spread over 600 sq km, has seen its population grow at a rate which is twice that of Maharashtra’s and …
In a bid to control drop out from schools in the tribal belt of the state, Rajasthan Government on Thursday said it would open 325 new government sponsored mother and child care centres on a pattern similar to ‘Anganwadi’. The state Minister for Tribal Area Development Nandlal Meena said the …
Thursday, May 29, 2014 - Quetta—Abdul Sattar, Coordinator Child Rights Movement Balochistan, on Wednesday urged the provincial government to increase budgetary allocations for children in the budget for 2014-15. Addressing a press conference here at Quetta Press Club, he said the Balochistan government should allocate resources for improving the child …
National Green Tribunal schedules hearing in Shimla on May 29 Backed by the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST), tribals, including NGOs and hoteliers, have approached the National Green Tribunal (NGT) seeking a complete exemption from “permits” to cross the 13,050 foot-high Rohtang Pass for people of Lahaul-Spiti, Pangi, Leh …
A 2010 survey conducted by the Scheduled Tribes Development Department had found that nearly half of the total deaths in the ST communities over the previous five years were premature or unnatural. The department recently prepared a state-level socio-economic status report based on the survey data which is yet to …
Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) launched its annual State of Pakistan's Children 2013 report here on Thursday highlights the dismal state of child rights and child protection in the country. The report provided an annual overview of developments in sector that are of special …
