Full Coverage: Labour

30.12.2005 As bulks of rural development outlays are employment-related, there is considerable scope for the various schemes to be streamlined and re-fashioned as an employment guarantee scheme.

26.12.2005 Christened 'Vidya', meaning knowledge, the primary school located at the Rainbow Montessori School was started this May with just six children. It now has 117 students and is growing fast. These children come in from the nearby slum.From the exterior it appears like any other primary school with playful kids, and even a casual look inside might not give away the silent revolution that is taking place there.

23.12.2005 A National Human Rights Commission report says that the number of child labourers in UP has seen an increase, the first since around 70,000 bonded children were freed at the behest of the Supreme Court in 1997.

22.12.2005 UNITED NATIONS, Dec 22 (OneWorld) - Despite significant improvement in economic growth, nearly half of the population on the African continent remains poor and jobless, a new study by the United Nations points out.

22.12.2005 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania – CRCA and the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities organised today the national workshop 'Child Labour: National and Local Mechanisms for the Elimination of Child Labour in Albania'. The workshop was supported by the Olof Palme International Center, a long-term partner of CRCA.

21.12.2005 The recently launched Child Labour Helpline is proving quite effective in hyderabad. Based on complaints received on it, district officials swung into action and rescued seven children, including a boy, from bonded labour after raids on several houses in city.

14.12.2005 NEW YORK, Dec 14 (OneWorld) - Coca-Cola, the multinational soft drink giant, is facing the wrath of rights advocacy groups here in the United States and abroad for refusing to take responsibility for abusive practices at its bottling plants.

14.12.2005 The South-Eastern European Network of Economists and Trade Unions organized a seminar today in Prishtina about the privatization and labor market in the countries of the region.

14.12.2005 HONG KONG (Reuters) - While the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Hong Kong this week may hold promises of more free trade and a better livelihood for mainstream society, for some, it is a matter of life and death.

13.12.2005 Project Priyadarshini, a new initiative to bring women into core areas of the tourism industry, will train women from different economic backgrounds to become self-sufficient by providing vocational training and other relevant skills to face challenges with courage and confidence.

08.12.2005 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA, a major child-rights organisation in the country, opened on 6 December 2005 the series of Workshops on Child Labour issue in Albania, which are organised under the programme 'Stop Child Labour in Albania', funded by The Olof Palme International Center in Sweden.

08.12.2005 UNITED NATIONS, Dec 8 (OneWorld) - Firestone, a multinational rubber manufacturing giant known for its automobile tires, has come under fire from human rights and environmental groups for its alleged use of child labor and slave-like working conditions at a plantation in Liberia.

07.12.2005 Much of the chocolate found on supermarket shelves continues to be produced under appalling conditions—despite years of public outrage and consumer demand for change. But smaller chocolate companies are showing that there is another way.

05.12.2005 "A job should keep you out of poverty, not keep you in it," says a new report from a network of faith-based organizations, arguing that raising the minimum wage will move the United States from a "low-road" to a "high-road" economy.

02.12.2005 The Norwegian Embassy in Croatia donated 120,000 Kuna in support of the “Education to Vocation – Vocation to Employment” Project, which is implemented by the Open Society Institute Croatia and the Association of Roma from Beli Manastir – Baranja.