Tag: Child

Owing to the government’s failure to implement its own laws, child labour in almost every part of the country including the federal capital, is...

Denial of affection and required attention, neglect and derision are equally hazardous for the personality development of the children as is physical torture or...

National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza stressed upon the need to eliminate child labour from the country and promote education at a national conference...

Kinnaird College for Women will organise a seminar in collaboration with the Child Care Foundation of Pakistan (CCFP) at Hladia Hall today (Tuesday) at...

Society for Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) held a conference on Monday at the Lahore Press Club on child domestic labour...

A dacoit and a child were killed in a police encounter in Bilal Colony within the precincts of Karachi Industrial Area (KIA) Police Station...

Over 25,000 children are forced to work in the district to support their poverty-hit parents while there is no authority to control child labour....

An 18-year-old married woman, Nabeela Khalid, was stabbed by her father in Jugian Nagran in Nawankot police precincts on Monday, for allegedly giving birth...

Every child is a blessing and precious gift of Allah Almighty. And His every gift should not be considered as a cause of weakness...

Like most developing countries, Pakistan too faces enormous challenges in the sphere of reproductive healthcare. Safe delivery of the child and the health of...

Two people – a woman and her child were killed and two policemen injured when a high-intensity improvised explosive device (IED) detonated on main...

Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, separated after the former governor revealed he had fathered a child with a member of their household...

Chief Justice of the High Court of Sindh (SHC) Justice Mushir Alam has stressed the need for proper legislation to protect the rights of...

A 12-year-old suicide bomber killed four people and wounded a dozen in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said. The boy -- thought to be one...

On February 11, 2010, Yasmin, a 15-year-old girl was allegedly burnt by her employers in Okara and died five days later in a hospital...

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday gave the custody of a Canadian child born out of wedlock to his unmarried Indian-origin Canadian national mother Roshni Desai and held that the mother should move a Canadian court for getting compensation, if any, from the Canadian national father of Pakistani origin who unlawfully brought the child to Pakistan.
The court also returned the passport of the mother so that she might travel back to Canada with her three and a half year

LAHORE - Once again parents supported by members of the civil society demonstrated outside the Punjab Assembly demanding a longer duration of the parent-children meeting. These parents have been divorced or separated from their spouses and currently do not have custody of children, either due to being under trial or because of the court's conviction. It's a violation of basic human rights that parents without custody are allowed a mere two hours of meeting with their children inside