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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School for child labourers
M Venkatarangaiya Foundation (MVF), a Hyderabad based voluntary agency, has helped 100,000 child laborers enrol in school in Andhra
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More efforts to fight child labour
Service convergence from various government departments like education, health, social welfare, labour and non-governmental organisations will help eradicate child labour, MB Pranesh, Principal
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Tribals forced to take up guns, says Bhuria
Tribals are converting into naxalites due to lack of developmental avenues. Lack of education and vocational prospects is motivating tribals to take up guns. Tribal Area and Tribal Commission
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Andhra Pradesh have its own child labour abolition bill
Andhra Pradesh will become the first state in the country to have its ownbill on abolishing child labour, but doubts are being expressed over its efficacy in achieving the objective as child labour
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Girl's education a worry
BIMARU is now B and U" ran the headlines in a major national daily last year when the Planning Commission first came out with a study showing there had been a massive rise in education levels in both
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A long way to go for these SHG members
The self help group movement for women has proved to be catalyst in the transformation of rural economy. The impact is to be quantified yet, still the role it has played so far in individual cases
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Adivasi land: Kerala to make fresh bid for central clearance
Kerala would make a renewed plea to the Centre to clear allocation of 25,000 hectares of land to be distributed to the adivasis as the UDF government was firm to find a lasting solution to the vexed
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Tribals want ITDP areas declared as scheduled areas'
Tribal organisations of Mysore and Kodagu districts in Karnataka have urged the National Commission for Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes to declare Karnataka's Integrated Tribal Development
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SC seeks reports on bonded labour
Taking note of the National Human Rights Commission's(NHRC) dismay over non-filing of status reports on bonded labourers to help their rehabilitation, the Supreme Court directed 11 states to file
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Tribals getting worst deal in Karnataka,' Bhuria
Chairman of the Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes Commission Dileep Singh Bhuria said tribals in Karnataka State had to face up to the