Full Coverage: Labour

26.06.2006 Mandi village, six kilometres from the district town, is now buzzing with working women. About one hundred and twenty non-literate, poor women coming from faraway areas produce garments in a tin-shed room. Today they are self-reliant, earning Tk 150 to Tk 200 a day by working for six to eight hours.

23.06.2006 Worldwide more than 211 million children aged 5 to 14 are passing through different forms of child labor. Three million Nepali children are working under extreme hardship. Laws were made, but have been left unenforced.

19.06.2006 More than reservation, Indian women need equal opportunities in educational and professional fields for their collective emancipation...Ms.Shailaja Chandra opines in The Pioneer.

19.06.2006 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania together with other major child rights and human rights NGO's in Albania on the occasion of International Day Against Child Labour, organised this morning a protest under the motto “STOP CHILD LABOUR AND EXPLOITATION IN ALBANIA”. The protest took place in front of the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities.

19.06.2006 Indian concerns on women's land and resource rights will find voice at the Third World Urban Forum being held in Vancouver from 19th to 23rd June 2006.

16.06.2006 According to a recent ILO report on child labour,there are 218m aged 5-17 years, who are employed; of this number, 126m are employed in hazardous work. The United Nations Children's' Fund says that the sheer volume of children engaged in work is living proof of the world's failure to protect them. Navdip Dhariwal reports on the situation in a south Indian state in BBC NEWS.

16.06.2006 At a meeting organised by GAATW in Bangkok, Thailand, lawyers and human rights workers, from ten countries, agreed on a plan of action to increase access to justice for victims of human trafficking.

16.06.2006 Just 22, Jai Kumar, a teacher, knows what he wants for his students at the informal school for 'freed' bonded labour near this southern Pakistani city. I'm going to make sure that none of them ever end up working at the young age I was forced to.

15.06.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, June 15 (OneWorld) - Major international footwear companies would be wise to pay as much attention to the plight of their workers as their marketing campaigns during the World Cup, said the international human rights group Oxfam, which ranked each of the world's major sportswear companies for a new report, ''Offside! Labor Rights and Sportswear Production in Asia.''

15.06.2006 Kalanjiam, a federation of women's self help groups in Vellore, has been instrumental in securing the release of 644 children from match and beedi units. For this, they have mobilised Rs.30,000 in savings to pay off the owners who had loaned paltry sums to the children and were holding them to labour until the money was repaid.

13.06.2006 Encouraging statistics pointing to a decline in child labour do not conceal the fact that the problem remains a major challenge in large parts of the world, said the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on the World Day Against Child Labour.

07.06.2006 The DIM Association for Civic Education and Social Development opened a public competition for a part-time lecturer for the Youth in the Labour Market series of lectures, to be held in secondary schools in Zagreb, during the academic year 2006/2007. The lectures are part of the "Youth in the Labour Market – Informal Education of Youth on Implementation and Protection of their Social Rights". The competition is open for applications until June 31, 2006.

07.06.2006 No longer do the vast majority of migrants settle in just a small number of industrial nations (in the West)," says U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in the 90-page report titled "International Migration and Development".

07.06.2006 The US State Department said that millions of people still work as bonded labour in industries across Pakistan. The departments 2006 report on human trafficking describes Pakistan as a source, destination, and transit country where men, women, and children are traded for the purposes of sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude.

06.06.2006 By 2015, almost all new entrants in the global work force will come from developing countries, like India, according to a new report on global market trends, brought out by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).