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World Uyghur Congress highlights global advocacy in October newsletter
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) highlighted its October activities, including advocacy in Europe and Japan, protests against Chinese oppression, and actions targeting companies involved in Uyghur surveillance. Uyghurs in Xinjiang face systemic repression, including forced labour, surveillanc
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"Under PM Modi's leadership, India is uniting economic progress with socia
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Union Minister for Labour and Employment and Youth Affairs and Sports, Mansukh Mandaviya, attended the inaugural plenary session of the Second World Summit for Social Development in Doha, Qatar, along with over 180 dignitaries from various countries.
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India Post Payments Bank signs MoU with EPFO for doorstep Digital Life Cer
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
India Post Payments Bank (IPPB), a fully Government of India-owned entity under the Department of Posts, Ministry of Communications, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), Ministry of Labour & Employment, to offer doorstep Digit
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Employees' Enrolment Scheme-2025 launched to expand social security covera
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Employees' Enrolment Scheme - 2025 was launched by Union Minister for Labour & Employment and Youth Affairs & Sports at the 73rd Foundation Day of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) in New Delhi, aiming to boost voluntary compliance and expand social security coverage for elig
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"Fitness is key to becoming Viksit Bharat by 2047": Sports Minister Mandav
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The Union Minister for Youth Affairs & Sports and Labour & Employment, Mansukh Mandaviya, felicitated the newly appointed Fit India Icons, Bollywood Producer Rohit Shetty, World Cup-winning cricketer Harbhajan Singh and Olympic medallist Saina Nehwal, at the National Fitness & Wellness Concl
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Shram Shakti Niti draft, taking Manusmriti's inspiration, an insult to Con
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"Labour policy draft says that it takes inspiration 'ancient texts' like Manusmriti. On 26 November 1949, when the Constitution was adopted in Constituent assembly, then RSS had heavily attacked it, and Ambedkar, saying that the Constitution is not of India because it does not take inspir
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"Lot of immigrant undercutting wages of American workers," US VP JD Vance
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Speaking at the Turning Point USA Event in Mississippi on Wednesday, Vance said the administration's push for H-1B reform was aimed at ensuring fairness for US workers and restoring the visa's original purpose--to retain top global talent, not replace domestic labour with cheaper alternat
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"Return to Principles of the Manusmriti": Jairam Ramesh on draft Shram Sha
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
In a post on X, Ramesh said, "The Modi Govt's draft Shram Shakti Niti 2025 released earlier this month for public feedback explicitly claims that the Manusmriti embeds 'the moral basis of labour governance within India's civilisational fabric, centuries before the rise of modern labour la
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Militarisation deepens in Balochistan: Pakistan's forces accused of civili
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The Pakistani military has come under renewed scrutiny after the widespread human rights violations in the Zehri area of Balochistan's Khuzdar district. According to residents, the army has seized civilian land, forced locals into hard labour, and turned vital public infrastructure into mili
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Levies officer among two reportedly detained by security forces in Balochi
Updated : 4 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Two men, including a Levies officer, were arrested in Balochistan's Kolwah and Kharan districts, with their whereabouts unknown. Separately, attackers abducted 18 labourers and set fire to vehicles in Khuzdar. The province faces a severe human rights crisis, with enforced disappearances and
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Pakistan: Sindh survey reveals 1.3 million children engaged in labour; maj
Updated : 4 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The labour department, in partnership with UNICEF, officially launched the survey on Friday. It indicated that about two-thirds of the 1.3 million children are trapped in child labour in the agricultural sector, followed by manufacturing at 12.4 per cent and wholesale/retail trade at 10.8 pe
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Pakistan: Gunmen abduct 18 labourers in Khuzdar
Updated : 4 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Armed assailants attacked a construction company's camp in Balochistan's Khuzdar district in Pakistan, abducting 18 labourers and torching several vehicles and pieces of heavy machinery, The Express Tribune reported on Saturday.
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