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
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Rs 98 crore for child, women welfare
Haryana Government has earmarked over Rs 98.18 crore for the implementation of various women and child development schemes during the current financial
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Cabinet accepts second labour panel report
The Union Cabinet today accepted the report of the second labour commission and indicated that it would be available in Parliament tomorrow. But it deferred a discussion on the bifurcation of the
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Growing bananas with children
At Los Alamos plantation in Ecuador, it would appear that no expense was spared to produce the Bonita brand bananas sold in the United States. The modern hacienda in its steamy corner of Ecuador, one
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Rise in Haryana women workers
The percentage of workers in Haryana has increased from 31 in 1991 to 39.76 in 2001, registering a net gain of 8.76 per cent over the decade, indicating the success of economic policies of the State
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'Strife in J&K responsible for rise in child labour'
The problem of child labour has assumed dangerous dimensions in the Kashmir valley, owing to militancy in the State since 1990. According to a latest survey conducted in Srinagar and Budgam districts
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Rajasthan to launch child development projects
In an attempt to bring about improvement in the nutrition and health level of children and women, as many as 66 new child development projects are being initiated in Rajasthan under the third phase
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Ban on children from working in houses, demands CACL
Campaign Against Child Labour (CACL), a national network of more than 5,000 anti-child labour and rights groups, has demanded amendments to the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986
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Amendment of Child labour Act Sought
In a memorandum submitted to the Union Labour Ministry and Department of Women and Child Development on Tuesday, concerned members of civil society have asked for "appropriate' amendments to the
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Peru struggles with child labour
Peruvian brickmaker Ernesto has perfected a strategy for stacking heavy, dull red bricks in this open-air brickworks outside Lima. But he can't share the tricks of his trade because he is only three
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Branding for a better life?
The pristine Dangs, a tribal area in Gujarat on the western slopes of the Sahyadri ranges, shot into the limelight a few years ago and for all the wrong reasons. The Dangi survives in a world of his