Ten families, working as 'bonded labour' brick kiln, where they had been employed, at Vellivoyal in Ponneri taluk, 30 km from Chennai. The law specifies that Rs 1,000 be provided to every labourer as

Ms Krishna Das, in charge of the Chhattisgarh unit of the Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, has been honoured by the National Commission for Women for her work in the tribal

To empower women, especially those belonging to weaker sections of the society, and to facilitate their participation in the national mainstream, the Delhi Government will be launching a "Stree

Child labour thrives in India despite a whole plethora of punitive as well as prohibitive laws. In the absence of a political will, all efforts in the past to eliminate the curse of child labour have

The Department of Public Instructions will conduct a census of children who are in the age group of 3 to 14 years, from February 14 to 16 throughout Karnataka. The exercise is undertaken to identify

Light House, a voluntary development organisation, recently launched a project in Rangpur (Bangladesh) aiming at removing child labourers from tobacco and bidi industry and improving their

Althought the Madhya Pradesh government claims to be a champion of Dalits, tribals and the weaker sections, 45 families of the Bega tribe find themselves refugees in their

Even five years after the Tamil Nadu Government spotted hundreds of child labourers, most of them continue to toil in hazardous industries, while a Rs. 4.74 crore fund created for their

International labour organisation signed an agreement with the consortium of employers associations for the elimination of child labour titled 'Cease child labour' on Friday in Andhra

According to the home ministry, Lodhas are one of the 52 primitive tribes facing extinction. While the 1991 census put Lodha numbers at 68,000, a more recent survey put their figure at 46,669. They