Zimbabwe gender assessment
The aim of this report is to gather evidence that will identify priorities and actions by stakeholders towards positively influencing, up scaling and accelerating gender equality and women’s empowerment
The aim of this report is to gather evidence that will identify priorities and actions by stakeholders towards positively influencing, up scaling and accelerating gender equality and women’s empowerment
The Central Empowered Committee, constituted by the Supreme Court, has asked the Kerala Government to consider a quick, detailed survey of non-forest land available in Kerala State for hammering out
The Union Government is committed to eradicate child labour from the country by the end of 2007. Apart from this, the Union Ministry of Labour will soon bring out a new legislation to ensure social
The Himachal government is to consider hiring labourers in tribal areas for three months and not for one month keeping in view short season of work. Mr Virbhadra Singh, Himachal Chief Minister,
Child labourers have increased alarmingly in Srimangal. Children of 8-10 years of age are working in the workshops, Saw mills, garage, tea gardens and pulling
A new trend of employing female children as 'bonded labourers' has come into practice on hybrid cotton-seed farms in south India,a recent survey has revealed.Local seed farmers, who cultivate hybrid
The Tamil Nadu State government has rehabilitated over 7,000 child labourers since 1997 through 243 transit-schools and initiated prosecution against nearly 550 employers in the last two years for
Despite assurances by successive governments regarding elimination of, or reduction in, child labour, and pledges of provision of both formal and non-formal education to these children , earning
Over one million children work in Maharashtra, many in hazardous conditions, in sugarcane factories and powerlooms
The State Government has decided to make Karnataka a 'child labourless State' by 2007. To achieve this objective, all support and co-operation was needded to end the child labour menace, said S.
Several large national and multinational companies including Unilever, Monsanto, Syngenta, Advanta, Bayer and Emergent Genetics that produce and market hybrid cottonseed are involved in subtle ways