Lawyers are probing "dire"in what could turn into the latest dispute over the social media giant's labour practices in Africa. The probe fo...

The Trump administration, under Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, has cancelled millions in grants aimed at combating global...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of Google parent Alphabet, Apple, Dell Technologies, Microsoft and Tesl...

Resource rich bigger African states are pushing back against Beijing. In August Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy, suspended some of illega...

"India has taken important steps to improve the quality of care during labour and childbirth, leading to reductions in maternal deaths. Thi...

Every year the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery is dedicated to the abolition of modern forms of slavery.

In 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...

"Importantly, the profits of the corporate world also depend on the robustness of these systems. Today’s global economy functions with many...

New analysis of data for 194 countries and different regions showed that children in Latin America and the Caribbean, and South Asia, misse...

"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...

Of these, there were 12 million new displacements involving children, including around 3.8 million of them caused by conflict and violence,...

The AgriPredict app forecasts the probability of pest invasions, including the voracious fall armyworm, which eats crops and has wreaked ha...

The 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...

Another message said Indian students also performed better at university level: "the majority of students who graduated were Indians, (this...

Satyarthi has always been concerned about the plight of child labourers and it finally prompted him to start an organised movement.

Rupee depreciation has bailed out Indian apparel exporters who were unsure of growth following weak consumer sentiment.

The Independent South Asia Commission on Poverty Alleviation (ISACPA) has said the region should bring forward its targets for halving pove...