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We are on the eve of the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals that were promised and pledged in the year 2000 by 189 nations of the world. It was envisaged to overcome extreme poverty and multiple deprivations existing in the society. With barely less than three years left to reach 2015, it would be interesting to study if there is a growing equality of opportunity between people and among nations. This is an issue that now dominates every ...
Accounting women's work has always been shrouded in mystery, be it the domestic sphere, in the agriculture field or the industrial acivity. Globalisation, revolution in information and communication technologies, changing patterns of population migration and the role of women has altered the employment and work structure drastically leading to informalisation of formal labour. This imposes a severe threat on the survival of more than 90 percent of the ...
This book essentially draws on a collection of articles presented at the two day International Conference on "Reconstruction Process in Afghanistan," held in New Delhi, on April 23-24, 2008. The conference was sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and was attended by scholars, activists, NGOs practitioners, government officials, Diplomats, Ambassadors and the Ministry of External Affairs. Covering a ...
Based on extensive field work with a focus on children who are retrieved from carpet industry in the Bhadoi-Mirzapur belt of Uttar Pradesh and admitted to the non formal schools, the book evaluates the programme of non-formal education and the progress made by the children released from the industry, their status of health and nutrition, education, skill development, employment' orientation and training in such schools. It also provides an account of the ...
The book is relevant for the academicians, policy makers, planners, social workers and civil society alike, who are committed to the task of eradicating child abuse in India.