ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP): Ministry of Human Rights (MOHR)
established a core committee to review legislations
regarding rights of children, draw an effective implementation plan,
design awareness campaigns and ensure its regular monitoring for a
secure and conducive environment of our future generation.
All the stakeholders including child rights
activists, academicisions, official of various ministries,
policy makers, lawyers and media persons should be part of
this core committee.
Community leaders including respectables of the local natives,
Imams of mosques and teachers are also being involved to disseminate
the message of children rights and convince them not to involve them
labour at young age.
“Quotes of Islam regarding rights of children, draw backs of
their involving children in work and importance of education for
their future should be printed for mass awareness of people”,
official sources told APP.
These pamphlets would be disseminated in
schools and madrassas and other community gathering to educate
people to safeguard their rights.
He informed that it is also under consideration that children
from the age of 14 to 18 should be allowed to work legally but with
the restriction not to involve them in any kind of hazardous work
so that they can support their families but not at the cost of their
own safety.
Lot of work has been done on legislation for the
rights of children but now its time to develop referral system so
that vulnerable children can be shifted in case any emergency, he
shared.