- Collaboration with other departments stressed in the meeting
The Human Rights Ministry on Thursday constituted a core committee to review laws regarding children’s rights and for performing other duties, including drawing an effective implementation plan, designing awareness campaigns, and ensuring regular monitoring, for a secure and conducive environment for the future generation.
The Ministry had been receiving a number of domestic child labour and child violence cases, an official told APP on Thursday, adding, the step had been taken to stop this menace on urgent basis.
All the stakeholders, including child rights activists, academicians, and officials of various ministries, policy makers, lawyers, and media persons should be part of this core committee, the official stressed.
The Ministry held a high-level meeting to discuss issues pertaining to children’s rights and many measures were suggested to reduce child labour in the country, said the official.
During the meeting, it was decided that the community leaders, including elders among the locals, imams of mosques, and teachers, would also be involved to disseminate the message of children’s rights, and in discouraging child labour.
“Literature, including Islamic quotations, regarding children’s rights, will be printed for mass awareness,” the official added.
She stated that these pamphlets would be disseminated in schools and madrasas (seminaries), and other community places to educate people to safeguard rights of children.
During the meeting, members suggested that a child from the age of 14 to 18 should be allowed to work legally to support his/her family but not at the cost of his/her own safety.
The members were of the view that a proper system should be developed for the implementation of legislations passed on children’s rights.
They also showed their consent to call an inter-ministerial meeting in which the other government departments would be involved to develop a joint mechanism for better future for children.
