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
People
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Himachal offers loan sops for tribals
The Himachal Pradesh Cabinet decided to provide a State guarantee of Rs 5 crore in favour of Himachal Pradesh Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation (SCSTDC), Solan, for
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UNICEF plan comes under fire
An action plan believed to have been prepared by the LTTE addressing the needs and care of war affected children in the North East, has come under heavy fire from many children's organizations, who
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25,000 tribals await ownership right
The fate of more than 25,000 thousand tribal families is in total dark as the Government of Maharashtra had not implemented its 33-year-old decision to give them ownership right over the forest land.
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Nomadic tribes get travelling teachers
Already the Himachal Pradesh state boasts of a 98% enrolment, the balance two per cent are children of nomadic Gujjar and Gaddi tribes and the state's migrant workforce. The solution: embed teachers
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JMM delegation meets Kalam on tribal rights
The main opposition party of Jharkhand met president A P J Abdul Kalam with 14 demands, that include safeguarding the tribal land act. JMM chief Shibu Soren told the The Pioneer over telephone from
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Dhemaji tribals not getting land pattas
The tribal population in Dhemaji district in Assam who claim to have been living in forest areas for over three decades, have alleged that they are often served eviction notices by the government
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'Children in poverty denied basic rights'
The stark inequalities based on religion, caste and gender and social differences in Rajasthan take a heavy toll of children in poverty, often leading to child labour and migration. These children
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Intellectual property rights of tribals
There are innumerable tribals all over the country and the world who are languishing and are being unconscionably exploited for their wealth of knowledge about herbal medicines and a variety of other
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Tribal rehabilitation policy in the offing
The Centre is working on a comprehensive policy for resettlement and rehabilitation of millions of tribals across the country, Minister for Tribal Affairs Jual Oram said here on Thursday while
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50 Oriya labourers rescued from AP brick kiln
Even as allegations of yet another starvation death surfaced in Kalahandi, Orissa's perennial hunger zone, 50 migrant labourers from the neighbouring Bolangir district, equally notorious for poverty