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On This Day, June 5: D-Day, Operation Blue Star, RFK assassination, AIDS epidemic, Marshall Plan and other key eventsOn This Day, June 5, history witnessed several defining moments across war, politics and social change. The date is associated with the D-D...- For foreign workers in Mideast, risk from Iran war collides with economic strain at homeA missile strike in the Mideast killed Mohammad Abdullah Al Mamun, a Bangladeshi migrant worker, highlighting the perilous situation for mi...
- 138 million child laborers in 2024; world misses target to eliminate child labour by 2025: ILO-UNICEF ReportAccording to the report, released on Wednesday, child labour has almost halved, from 246 million to 138 million since 2000, yet current rat...
- Lawyers probe 'dire' conditions for Meta content moderators in GhanaLawyers are probing "dire"in what could turn into the latest dispute over the social media giant's labour practices in Africa. The probe fo...
- Federal grants to fight child labour worldwide are axed in DOGE cutsThe Trump administration, under Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, has cancelled millions in grants aimed at combating global...
- US court sides with Apple, Tesla, other tech companies over child labour in AfricaThe US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of Google parent Alphabet, Apple, Dell Technologies, Microsoft and Tesl...
- Africa pushes back against China's predatory practices in rare earth mineral sectorResource rich bigger African states are pushing back against Beijing. In August Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy, suspended some of illega...
- India likely to achieve SDG goals for reduction in newborn deaths: Top WHO official"India has taken important steps to improve the quality of care during labour and childbirth, leading to reductions in maternal deaths. Thi...
- International Day for the Abolition of Slavery 2022: What is the Annual UN event?Every year the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery is dedicated to the abolition of modern forms of slavery.
- Child labour, caste-based discrimination, poverty closely interlinked in India: UN Special RapporteurIn Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, the Americas and Europe, between 4 and 6 per cent of children are said to be in child labour, and...
- Corporate and social interests can be aligned by having robust and transparent legal rules and systems: Anat R. Admati"Importantly, the profits of the corporate world also depend on the robustness of these systems. Today’s global economy functions with many...
- Children have lost over a third of standard global 190-day school year due to COVID-19: ReportNew analysis of data for 194 countries and different regions showed that children in Latin America and the Caribbean, and South Asia, misse...
- Coronavirus pandemic may push 86 mn more children into household poverty by 2020-end: Report"The economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic could push up to 86 million more children into household poverty by the end of 2020, an incr...
- Over 5 million people internally displaced in India in 2019: UNOf these, there were 12 million new displacements involving children, including around 3.8 million of them caused by conflict and violence,...
- 9 ways tech made the world a better placeThe AgriPredict app forecasts the probability of pest invasions, including the voracious fall armyworm, which eats crops and has wreaked ha...
- Lesser women in workforce: Assocham calls for remedial actionThe number of working women in India in 2000-05 jumped to 37 per cent from the 34 per cent earlier, but it has been on a downhill ever sinc...
- Row breaks over better results of Indians in South AfricaAnother message said Indian students also performed better at university level: "the majority of students who graduated were Indians, (this...
- Kailash Satyarthi: Electrical engineer, child rights activist & now Nobel winnerSatyarthi has always been concerned about the plight of child labourers and it finally prompted him to start an organised movement.
- Indian apparel exports grow 20% to $13.5 billionRupee depreciation has bailed out Indian apparel exporters who were unsure of growth following weak consumer sentiment.
- Bring down poverty by half in 5 years: ISACPAThe Independent South Asia Commission on Poverty Alleviation (ISACPA) has said the region should bring forward its targets for halving pove...
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