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• World migration report 2024

  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

  • 07/05/2024

  • International Organization for Migration (IOM)
  • • Migration
    • Displacement
    • Climate Change
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    • Women
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• 2531 additional Aanganwadis

  The Madhya Pradesh state government has accorded sanction to start 2531 additional Aanganwadi centres in the state. Directives have been issued to start these Centres soon. Priority would be given to

  • 10/12/2002

  • Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
  • • People

• For a better tomorrow

  This year the UNICEF's 'The state of the world's children 2003' report focuses on what many in India would consider a complete non-issue -children's participation. In a country where 30% of the

  • 16/12/2002

  • Economic Times (New Delhi)
  • • People

• Children's forums playing an important role

  Even as the State of the World's Children Report 2003 from UNICEF, released in the country the other day emphasised on children's participation, Rajasthan could boast of as many as three models in

  • 15/12/2002

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • People

• Let them breathe

  Core values of democracy are often best learnt during childhood. This is a key observation of the State of the World's Children Report, 2003, the annual flagship publication of the United Nations

  • 19/12/2002

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • People

• Primitive tribal groups still ignored

  The Standing Committee on Labour and Welfare has expressed displeasure over the efforts made by the Government for the uplift of the Primitive Tribal Groups (PTGs) and said that the progress made in

  • 26/12/2002

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • People

• Panchayats succumb to Naxals' diktats

  Panchayati Raj institutions are collapsing in Chhattisgarh, thanks to the outlawed People's War Group's thirst for power and the non-compliance of the two-child norm stipulated by the government.

  • 30/12/2002

  • • People

• Settlement of encroachers in Jonai tribal areas flayed

  The illegal acquisition of land in the Tribal Belt and Block areas by encroachers under Jonai sub-division in Dhemaji district of Assam has become a major threat for the bonafide local people. The

  • 27/12/2002

  • Sentinel (Guwahati)
  • • People

• US gives $3.5m to free Nepal Kamaiyas

  The United States has announced a rescue package of $3.5 million for the rehabilitation of Nepali bonded labour locally called

  • 24/11/2000

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • People

• Unicef calls for child investment

  The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) called on world leaders to stop the massive squandering of human potential by neglecting the needs of very young children. In its annual report on the

  • 13/12/2000

  • Financial Times (London)
  • • People

• UNICEF to aid 6 towns

  UNICEF has selected six towns of Haryana, including Sonepat district for providing financial assistance to those living below the poverty lien during the current financial

  • 26/12/2000

  • • People