Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani has said that more than two dozen laws exist at provincial and federal levels with regard to child protection and children’s rights but were not being implemented.
Rabbani said this while participating in a panel discussion on ‘Child Protection Agenda 2017’ organised by the Human Rights Organization at a local hotel here on Tuesday. The audience at the event was addressed by Federal Ombudsman Suleman Farooqi, human rights activist Hina Jillani, National Commission on the Status of Women Chairperson Khawar Mumtaz, and Syed Tallat Hussain.
Rabbani said that the failure of governance at different level had plagued the country and that all resources of the state were not being used for the welfare of the masses, but were being exploited for personal interests. “The state will have to act and cannot turn a blind eye to the rights of children,” Mian Raza Rabbani said.
He said that effective implementation of existing child protection laws could substantially improve the situation, but this not possible without the active role of the state and state institutions seem to be unwilling to act at present.
