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BSF at India-Bangla border rush pregnant woman to hospital
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Nadia (West Bengal) [India], July 7 (ANI): Border Security Force (BSF), near the India-Bangladesh border, rushed a woman, who was writhing in labour pain, to a hospital in West Bengal.
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Protest in Pakistan province Sindh's Islamkot against labourer's death int
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], July 6 (ANI): The ongoing protest in Sindh's Islamkot over the recent death of a worker from the Bheel community has intensified with demonstrations spreading to other cities including Tharparkar and Mirpurkhas after police moved to suppress the stir.
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China among worst countries in US human trafficking report
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], July 4 (ANI): China among worst countries in human trafficking following its increasing repression of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet and forced labour, revealed an US report.
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Study: Direct deposit leads to 'digital empowerment' for women workers in
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 4 (ANI): A study led by economists at Yale University, giving greater digital control over their wages to women in India's Madhya Pradesh led them to enter the labour force and also liberalised their beliefs about working women.
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Bonded labour traps thousands in Pakistan, despite law against slavery
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], July 2 (ANI): Thousands of peasants in Pakistan remain entrenched in servitude under bonded labour as even after five years after the Sindh Assembly passed the Bonded labour abolition Act, the law is yet to be implemented.
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Direct deposit is 'digital empowerment' for women workers in India
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Connecticut [US], July 2 (ANI): During a new study, co-authored by Yale economists Rohini Pande and Charity Troyer Moore, giving greater digital control over their wages to women in India's Madhya Pradesh led them to enter the labour force and also liberalised their beliefs about working wom
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In Xinjiang, Chinese govt is the trafficker, says US State Dept report
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], July 2 (ANI): A total of 11 governments around the world including China, has a documented "policy or pattern" of human trafficking, and forced labour, said a report released by US State Department on Thursday.
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Number of international migrant workers rises to 169 million: ILO
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 1 (ANI): A new report by the United Nations (UN)-body International Labour Organisation (ILO) has highlighted that the number of international migrant workers has risen globally to 169 million, an increase of three per cent since 2017.
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Implement 'One Nation One Ration Card' scheme by July 31: SC to States, UT
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 29 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that by July 31, 2021, all states and Union Territories must implement the 'One Nation One Ration Card' scheme that allows migrant labourers to get ration benefits from any part of the country, irrespective of the place
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Nike 'a brand of China, for China': CEO after facing boycott call over rem
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 26 (ANI): Nike CEO John Donahoe has said the sportswear apparel giant is a "brand of China and for China" after it faced a backlash earlier this year for voicing concerns about the communist government using Uyghur forced labour in the production of cotton.
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US bans imports of material from Chinese company linked to forced labour c
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): The United States banned imports of solar panels and other goods made with materials produced by a Chinese company Hoshine Silicon Industry Co after the company's plants were linked to forced labour camps in China's Xinjiang region targeting Uyghurs and other
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J-K: Daily-wager murdered in Rajouri, four held
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Rajouri (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], June 25 (ANI): A daily-wage labourer died allegedly after being attacked by some unidentified persons in Rajdhani village of Rajouri's Thanamandi tehsil.
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