“DCW has been working day and night to save lives. The placement agency racket is spreading all across the country at a very dangerous rate. Young children are being deprived of their... Read more »

By Anurag Singh, Sandeep Pandey Atma-nirbhar (self-reliant) India must perform on several fronts in order to vindicate itself on its adopted path in the current economic crisis coupled with crippling pandemic, two... Read more »

By Roli Srivastava Samita Chavan used to wake up at 3am every day to the sound of her neighbour’s wet grinder in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum. Now, she is adjusting to a rare... Read more »

By Roli Srivastava Rescued victims of child labour in India rarely receive state compensation, new data shows, as campaigners warned a government drive to boost support for slavery survivors was falling short.... Read more »

“We are all witnessing the criminalisation and crushing of any form of democratic questioning of the government or expression of dissent and the targetted attacks on rights defenders and others who are... Read more »

The Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children 2020, which covered 155 countries, found that while 88 per cent of countries have key laws in place to protect children, only 47... Read more »

By Kieran Guilbert Labour rights are being eroded worldwide as more countries deny workers the ability to strike, unionise and negotiate better terms, a global trade union said on Thursday, warning that... Read more »

By Matthew Lavietes The coronavirus pandemic has put millions of children at risk of being pushed into underage labor, reversing two decades of work to combat the practice and potentially marking the... Read more »

In the ongoing corona crisis, the scheme has not only provided employment, but has also been the driver of the rural economy. By Pramod Jha During the corona period, lakhs of migrant... Read more »

Let us not forget that the notification of MGNREGA in September 2005 as an Act of Parliament came about because of a people’s movement after years of struggle by civil society. The... Read more »

As India struggles with the COVID-19 outbreak, children from underprivileged communities are at greater risk. New Delhi, June 3 (IANSlife) As digital and tech are the new normal, Foundations and NGOs take... Read more »

“The government did not give us anything and the food we got was from charities. Even to get that, we faced discrimination, with locals getting first preference,” By Roli Srivastava and Anuradha... Read more »

Most countries including ours did not pay any heed to the WHO warning. In our case, we were busy entertaining foreign dignitaries and with the sub-regional elections. By the time we were... Read more »

“We have no food, water or no milk for the children, the temperatures are blistering hot. We are eating stale, spoiled leftover food in small portions which we carried from Mumbai since... Read more »

What this means is, that an already harrowed labour class, the migrant labourers who have borne the maximum brunt of this pandemic due to non-payment of wages, absence of food security and... Read more »

Source: Counterview.net By Amarjeet Kaur The final package, the fifth one in a row, announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on May 17 was a fiasco. Sitharaman during her press conference for... Read more »

The most comfortably placed, or so it seems, are those from the Scheduled Tribes as 21.3 per cent of them said they are “very concerned” that the pandemic may cost them their... Read more »

According to the World Bank, over 370 million indigenous people inhabit over 90 countries, in both rural and urban areas. New York, May 17 (IANS) As the world scrambles to fight coronavirus... Read more »