Thousands of tribals living in "forest villages" across Madhya Pradesh have been deprived of ownership rights over their land, according to a Betul-based tribals body, Shramik Adivasi Sangathan, as

An international convention to "ban the most intolerable forms of child labour", drafted by the ILO, will be put to vote tomorrow at Geneva. This will conclude the Global march against child labour

From South Asia, little Meena is set to travel the globe as an ambassador for Unicef, the UN Children's Fund. This girl from the world of animation is taking up the task of building awareness about

The Indian Associations of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (IAPPD) has instituted an award in memory of its chairman, Satpaul Mittal, to give recognition to individuals and

A previously unknown tribe of Indians believed to never have had contact with modern society has been spotted in the Amazon Jungle, officials with the National Indian Foundation(FUNAI)

India has proposed to work towards different sets of norms for developed and developing countries with regards to fundamental human rights at work at the plenary session of the 86th International

The 86th annual International Labour Conference (ILC) got under way in Geneva recently in the company of hundreds of marchers for whom the conference was the final destination in a Global March that

The government is expected to endorse the draft of the International Labour Organisatio's convention on child labour. This is because the ILO is now focussing on putting a halt to "cetain forms of

Andhra Pradesh construction mazdoor sangh, an affiliated wing of the Bharatiya mazdoor sangh, will admit about 240 child labourers in regular schools, as part of the International programmes on the

Scores of youngsters ended a long march against child labour in Geneva on Saturday, demanding an end to the greed of bosses and the complicity of governments. Between them they had covered a total of