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THE NATIONAL: Zayed Award for Human Fraternity helps promote women’s rights, says Pope Francis
Catholic Church head tells 2023 judging committee the award promotes human fraternity on a global scale Pope Francis said on Monday that the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity helps to promote the protection of women’s rights. The award allocates $1 million to an...
THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS: 25 rescued from shackles of child labour in Delhi’s Alipur
According to a senior official, all the rescued children are between the age group of 9 to 17 years. NEW DELHI: In a major step against alleviating child labour, the Delhi Police along with an NGO rescued 25 children including seven girls from various manufacturing...
IPS NEWS OPINION: War, Famine, Disease, Disasters – 2022 – a Year Staring at Apocalypse
By Farhana Haque Raman. TORONTO, Canada, Dec 23 2022 (IPS) - A year that started with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is ending with famine in Africa, while still spreading death and misery through an enduring pandemic and a deteriorating climate crisis — 2022 has...
THE WEEK: OPINION – Economic vulnerability pushing parents to marry off their minor daughters
By Ravi Kant, Country Head, India, Access to Justice for Children Programme, Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation (KSCF) -US Girls are used as a substitute for money to offset debts and settle conflicts. Child marriage is not a shocking event in our country; many...
GZERO MEDIA: Kailash Satyarthi – Child labor increased during COVID
The pandemic not only took kids out of school. It also pushed many into the workforce. COVID raised the demand for children as the cheapest source of labor, Nobel laureate and human rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi says during a Global Stage livestream...
THE TELEGRAPH: The dark truth about what’s really inside your make-up
Broken bones, lung disease, paltry pay… The reality of life for the children working in India’s illegal ‘artisan’ mica mines. By Nicole Mowbray Glow. We can’t get enough of it. It has been the beauty buzzword of the last decade; emblazoned across everything from...
