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In 2008, an Italian journalist, Stefania Maurizi from l'Espresso Magazine, had contacted Mohammad Ali Shah, head of Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF), for assessing the working conditions of workers of/in Maxco (also known as Masco) garment and leather factory in Ibrahim Hyderi Karachi. I was working as communication officer with the PFF. Shah asked me if I could help Stefania to explore what she

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I wrote this chapter for an NGO’s (SPARC) annual report called The State of Pakistan’s Children. This was the first draft. In drafting this chapter I was helped by Akhtar Laghari, Nadir Khoso and Madni Memon. Child Labour after the 18th Amendment in May 2010 In result of 18th Constitutional Amendment in April 2010, all provinces became responsible to deal with legislation pertaining to

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Introduction This brief paper highlights how the Frontier Crimes (Amendment) Regulation, 2011, and the Action (in Aid of Civil Power) Regulation, 2011, allow violation of child rights in FATA (Federally Administrated Tribal Areas) [1]. The main focus of the paper is violation of the rights of children who come in conflict with law and do not meet treatment given in the Constitution of

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Abdullah Khoso Whether you look at the period before or after the 18th Constitutional Amendment in April 2010, there was and is no independent National Commission on the Rights of Children (NCRC) in Pakistan. Such a Commission would be able to monitor the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) – which Pakistan ratified 21 years ago – and respond to the

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Following details are about the child abduction by strangers or relatives with wrong intention/s (also known as non-family abduction). There is another type of abduction called parental or family child abduction that takes place at the transnational level, in which a child is removed or taken away by a parent to another country without the knowledge or consent of the other parent. According to

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In 2008, 1838 cases including 1,298 (70 per cent) girls and 540 (30 per cent) boys (of child sexual abuse were reported.[1] In 2009, 2012 cases of child sexual abuse were reported. Of the total 68 percent victims were girls.[2] In 2010, a total of 2595 cases of sexual abuse were recorded. Of the total, 73% girls and 27% were boys.[3] Realizing the fact, unreported cases are very high than

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890,000 abortions were performed in Pakistan in 2002, a rate of 29 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age (15–49) annually.[1 ] It is mostly obtained in clandestine clinics. [ 2] In the absence of monitoring mechanism and lack of seriousness on the part of government, it is impossible to ascertain how many abortions have been conducted from 2003 till 2011. It has been reported that most of

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In 2010, in Sindh province alone, 50 cases of child marriage were reported.[1] According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, in 2008-2009 of the total children from the age group 10-14 (20.19 million) and 15-19 (19.88 million), 0.12 (in numbers 24228) and 5.18 (in numbers 1029784) percent were reported married. It does not include details of the children below 10 years of age.[2] According

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HERE are 42 standing committees in the National Assembly and 24 standing and functional committees in the Senate of Pakistan. There are also special and select committees in each house of parliament. Each committee is headed by a chairperson having a number of members. In Senate committees only senators and in National Assembly committees only members of the National Assembly can be members.

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Dear sir, madam, I hope this email finds you well. I have sent you an e-mail with a request to nominate a child for the Children’s Peace Prize 2012. This prize is awarded annually to a child, whose courageous or otherwise extraordinary efforts have made an impact on behalf of the Rights of the Child. With this e-mail we would like to inform that after several requests we have decided to extend

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In December 2011, Abdur ur Rehman, 66, kept imploring the police officials of the Railway police station Rawalpindi to release his sixth grade, 12 year old son but no one paid attention on his helplessness. An FIR (164/2011) was lodged against his son under Section 127 of the Railways Act 1890; his son ended up in Adiala Jail and now facing the trail, if proved guilty, his son will be given death

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THIS is apropos of the news item ‘Minor offloaded’ (March 14). The FIA has arrested 12-year-old Akhtar Ali at Peshawar airport when he was about to board a Sharjah-bound plane. The boy was provided passport by Pakistan and granted permission to work in Sharjah by the UAE. Sadly, the FIA treats such children as offenders and criminals, though the law of the land says that such children have to be

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By Carol Grisanti, NBC News ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- It’s the game-playing that draws the attention: A group of young boys are acting out the last moments of a suicide bomber, for fun. In a disturbing 84-second video, posted on YouTube, one boy, perhaps 12 years old, is dressed in black, his face covered by a black scarf. He is the one who gets to blow himself up. Beforehand, he hugs the other

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By Abdullah Khoso“I HAVE come,” said the 13-year-old boy before blowing himself up at a security picket at the Urdu Bazaar intersection of Lahore, killing and injuring a number of people last month.Children in the settled and tribal areas of the northwest are commonly used to carry out suicide attacks in Pakistan. In one case in 2009, the army detained 20 boys from the Swat valley and nearby

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A GIRL child, either victim or alleged offender, is amongst the most vulnerable members of society who come into conflict with the law and are easy prey for abuse and injustice.A girl child suspected of a crime or breaking the law is met with an improper investigation and interrogation procedure by the police in Pakistan. Pakistani laws, however, are lenient towards girl child offenders. The

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IntroductionDuring the time of the British Raj in the subcontinent of India, a set of civil and criminal laws, rules, and regulations were established ostensibly to maintain law and order in the land, but essentially to ensure that the people of British India remained in the total control of the government. However, in the mountainous areas of the North West Frontier, the region known as the

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By Abdullah KhosoSaturday, 21 Aug, 2010 ARRESTING and trying children under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 (ATA) and in anti-terrorism courts (ATCs) is common in Pakistan. Children as young as 12 are being arrested and detained for alleged offences under the act.Since the promulgation of the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance 2000 (JJSO), a number of children have been tried by the ATCs. Currently,

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Saturday, July 03, 2010By Our correspondentIslamabadThe number of children kept in the nationwide jails has declined from over 5,000 in year 2000 to around 1,300 these days, says National Manager of Society for the Protection of the Right of the Child (SPARC) Juvenile Justice Abdullah Khoso.While attributing this decline in juvenile detention figures to the promulgation of the Juvenile Justice

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ISLAMABAD, July 1: Pakistani jails hold at least 1,300 juvenile prisoners and an up to 10,000 children are facing criminal litigation and appearing in courts.These statistics come from a report launched by the Society for Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc) here Thursday on the 10th anniversary of the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance (JJSO).According to the report, there were 1,357

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By Abdullah KhosoIn Pakistan, on 6th October 2005, during morning prayers, two motorcyclists attacked on Ahmadi’s place of worship in which eight were killed and fourteen injured. This October incident was reported in local, national and international media. For the analysis I choose three news articles published with two Pakistani newspaper and one in Britain, the BBC.In the late nineteenth

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In 2009 Pakistan was tempted to violate human rights, claims Human Rights Watch in its 20th Annual Report 2010, the Human Rights Trends of 2009. Including Pakistan, the report offers summarized details of human rights conditions and violations in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide.The report says that Pakistan was one of the countries that blocked access to independent experts and

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Indian fishermen languish in jail despite serving their sentenceJust like the beginning of every month, 17-year-old Indian fisherman Jaish and his friends embarked on a journey to fish in the sea in February this year. Their smiles and laughter soon turned into a spate of tears and confusion, as their stay for a few hours in open waters of the disputed Sir Creek led to their confinement at the

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Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) distributed Eid gifts among juvenile inmates at the Remand Home in Nazimabad, Karachi.Akhtar Mangi, the Superintendent Remand Home, on the occasion shared with audience that the Remand Home was established in 1973 under the Sindh Children Act 1955, said a press release issued on Thursday.Mangi appreciated the contribution of Sparc,

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