Pakistan; the worst country for children. Rape, abuse, and killing of Children are at an all-time High.

• News By : Web Desk
• 2023-08-19 14:47:34

Gambat: 19 August 2023: In 2004, the ILO assessed over 264,000 children were child workers in domestic settings across the country. Pakistan ratified the ILO’s Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, which orders prompt, effective steps to thwart and proscribe the vilest types of child labour, and can also turn to Article 11 of the Constitution that “prohibits slavery and forced labour”.

But the state of our needy children is more dismal now than ever. Clearly, an understanding of child rights is beyond necessary as its absence has led to mass exploitation and abuse.

For this to penetrate a brutalised mindscape, justice has to be visible with fair trials of the accused so that culprits, regardless of social influence, are penalised, and legislation is aligned with international pledges. Also, measures such as ‘neighbourhood watch’, whereby signs of distress and child movement are monitored, will empower underprivileged communities in rural and urban areas.

The fact that without the leaked video of Fatima’s abuse, her agony would be buried with her is reason enough for ‘child labour’ to become a forbidden practice.

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