“Towards a Resilient Education Recovery from Pakistan’s Floods” is a research report published by the Pakistan Coalition for Education (PCE), an initiative of Society for Access to Quality Education. The report, authored by Dr. Moizza B Sarwar, a development expert and Research Associate at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, collabroatively with Education Champions Network and supported by Malala Fund, examines Pakistan’s education response following emergencies. The report aims to
Child Rights in Focus
Leading economists of Pakistan say that ‘population explosion’ is one of the biggest — if not the biggest — economic challenges facing the country. Pakistan has the fastest-growing population in South Asia with a fertility rate that is almost twice as high as that of India, Bangladesh and Nepal. A rapidly growing population of course puts strain on limited resources and is, therefore, a cause for serious concern. But Pakistan’s ‘population explosion’ is not
Do you know what the minimum age is for children in the different provinces of Pakistan to be employed as domestic workers? Child labour is a provincial subject in Pakistan after the 18th Constitutional Amendment in 2010. The 18th Constitutional Amendment devolved the issue of labour and employment to the provinces and each province is now responsible for enacting and implementing its own labour laws. There are two types of laws that have prohibits
This case involves the future of a young girl (Meher Fatima) who lost her mother to epilepsy when she was barely two years old. At the time when her mother was unwell and subsequently in hospital, she was at the house of her maternal grandmother being looked after by her maternal family, including a maternal uncle and unmarried aunt along with the grandmother. The dispute regarding the child’s guardianship arose three months after the
A nice year old Hajra visited the paediatric ophthalmology department at our hospital with complaints of decreased vision. An examination revealed that her visual loss was significant and irreversible in both eyes. All that could be done at this stage was to prevent further loss of vision by surgery. Hajra is one of the many unfortunate children whose vision has been compromised because of the injudicious use of over-the-counter steroid eye drops. These potent
As reported by Express News and Daily Tribune, a court in Faisalabad on March 11, 2023, sentenced a man involved in sharing child pornography to two years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 50,000. According to a spokesperson for the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), the accused, Asif Mehmood Raza, had shared child pornography- related material in various WhatsApp groups in 2021. The Faisalabad FIA Cyber Crime Circle took action and registered a case against
This brief animated video by UNICEF illustrates how a shift in attitudes can empower differently abled children.
Status of Ratification of International Treaties Dealing with Issues of Children by Pakistan Treaty Signature Date Ratification Date, Accession(a), Succession(d) Date CRC – Convention on the Rights of the Child *1 20 Sep 1990 12 Nov 1990 CRC-OP-AC – Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict 26 Sep 2001 17 Nov 2016 CRC-OP-SC – Optional Protocol to the Convention on
According to report published by Daily Dawn on March 7, 2023, the Federal Shariat Court on 6 March 2023 dismissed a petition challenging the Sindh Child Marriages Restraint Act of 2013, saying that the law was not against the injunctions of Islam. It held that the legislature’s decision to fix a minimum age for marriage was in accordance with injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Holy Quran and Sunnah. The two-judge bench,
Pakistan has established the Zanaib Alert, Response and Recovery Agency (ZARRA) under the Zainab Alert, Response and Recovery Act, 2020 to strengthen its efforts to find missing children and reunite them with their families by improving alert system data sharing, information provision, and reporting of missing children. ZARRA has released the missing and abducted children data from October, 2021 to JUNE, 2022. PROVINCE WISE CASES % Punjab 783 63.04 Sindh 205 16.51 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Digital safety for children refers to the precautions and measures taken to ensure that children are safe when using digital technology such as the internet, social media, and online gaming platforms. It involves protecting children from online threats such as cyberbullying, inappropriate content, online predators, and identity theft. Learn how to stay safe in the digital space and report the cybercrime to the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA), Government of Pakistan. Courtesy: Group Development Pakistan
In this educational video, GDP explains the factors for employing children in domestic settings and how the practice of child domestic labour in the home can be stopped. Courtesy: Group Development Pakistan