A large number of like minded National and International Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOs) has decided to launch a Child Rights Movement (CRM) in the country to tackle the issues of children like violence, abuse and exploitation.
Senior official of CRM on Wednesday told APP that around 27 NGOs including Aurat Foundation, Action Aid, Bedari, Cavish Foundation, Children First, Change in Education, Centre for peace and Development, Faizul Hassan welfare Society, Fata Research Centre, Horizon, Islamic Relief, Idarae-Taleeo Aghai, Muslim Aid, Masooom Rights Development Society, Organisation for Social Development, Plan Pakistan, Pothar Organisation for Development Advocacy, Pakistan Coalition for Education, Right to play, Rozan, Sahil, Society for the protection of the rights of the Child, Society for the Human Rights and prisoners Aid, Save the Children UK, Save the Children Sweden, Society for the Sustainable Development and World Vision Pakistan have joined hands for the rights of the children and said every child has the right to protection from all forms of exploitation.
He said the exploitation of children has taken on a transitional character, frequently involving organised criminal groups and networks. "Today the most profitable activities of organised crime are trafficking of arms, drugs and human beings, including children," he claimed. To a question, he said the trafficking of children is most often connected to the sale of children, child prostitution, child Labour, child illegal adoption and others forms of exploitation.
Member of CRM Asyia Batool said that CRM welcomes the initiatives of the government for ratification of major International human rights treaties such as International Convent on economic, Social and Cultural Rights, International Convent on Civil and Political Rights. She admitted that the movement need active participation of all the civil society actors to come together on a single forum. To a question, she said Pakistan is early leader in the international community's commitment to defending the rights of children, ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
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