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Sujeeshwa

Sujeeshwa — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Pakistan is not the single country where the children are living in such condition. This is the story of almost every country facing stiff violence no matter what the reasons of violence are. Targeting women and children is the biggest crime and it is happening everywhere. Eleven children were killed on Tuesday in an attack on a school bus in Mannar district in Sri Lanka, another country where children have similar fate as in Pakistan. Mannar district is said to be the territory held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Now, the Sri Lankan military and the LTTE have started blaming each other for the killing of the innocent children.

Mumtaz

Mumtaz — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Eevn kenya is facing the same fate and Children have become the worst victims of ongoing political-cum-ethnic violence in the country. The hopes of hundreds of thousands of Kenyan children and their families are hanging in the balance. Children and women rarely talk about sexual abuses but such attacks are too evident. They are becoming soft targets of rape and other sexual violence. On Jan 29, a newspaper published a shocking image of a seemingly dead Kenyan woman and her wiling kid baby shows the ongoing madness in Kenya. The title of the picture was ‘Bloody Infancy’.

Kezia

Kezia — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

You people are talking about violence against children in developing or underdeveloped countries. In my country, the United Kingdom, teenagers are becoming the victim of ‘development’ not ‘terrorism’. Almost half of Britain’s teenage population starts drinking even in their pre-teen years. It further fuels the germs of violence and anti-social behavior in the younger generation. This is the biggest reason why the crime rate is continuously going up across the UK.

Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Twelve Recommendations by International Women’s Forum to stop crime against children-

1. Provide sex education in schools

2. Parents should delete ‘sex taboo’ from their dictionary

3. Inform children about what is good and what is bad

4. Awareness campaigns to tell people about the dangers of sexual harassment

5. School sociologists should play a more effective role in supervising and controlling pupils’ behavior and problems.

6. There should not be gender segregation in the primary level to establish a natural communication between boys and girls

7. Mothers should not leave their children alone with maids

8. Grandmothers’ experience has a great role in raising children’s awareness about life’s dangers

9. Children should wear decent clothes when going out

10. Daughters should be with their mothers when interacting with outsiders and mothers must have an open communication with daughters

11. Girls should have their private rooms at home

12. Children should live their childhood to the maximum, by keeping them busy with activities

Ketul

Ketul — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Facing Violence has become a daily routine for millions of children across the world. This is the mother of all crimes and affecting girls and boys of all ages, in almost all social contexts, in every country. Children become victims of violence everywhere like in homes, schools, colleges, workplaces, they might be beaten, sexually harassed, tortured, and even murdered. The worst thing is that the perpetrators such crimes are often persons themselves responsible for protecting children. In most of such cases, the culprits are parents, family members, relatives, teachers, employers, the security forces and police officials. Violence against children has become a global epidemic breaking all the proportions.

Mariam

Mariam — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid (LHRLA) president Zia Ahmad Awan in Pakistan said that most of the reported cases of child abuse in 2007 took place in Punjab province. Pakistan’s first helpline, ‘Madadgar’, a project of the LHRLA and UNICEF, worked hard to collect the data to protect women and children.

Haris

Haris — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The situation is worse in Balochistan, NWFP where people don’t report about such incidents because of prevailing tribal judicial system. talking about sex and sexual violence is almost crime in this areas.

Mariam

Mariam — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

726 children were killed, 387 girls raped, 305 boys sodomized, 366 children brutally tortured, 85 became victim of karo-kari, 1,084 kidnapped and 1,230 went missing in Pakistan in 2007.

Haris

Haris — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Pakistan had ratified the Convention on the Rights of Child (CRC). The country is showing no accountability by not establishing effective mechanisms to restrict violence against children and for not providing effective protection to children. The CRC convention was ratified in 1990 but in Pakistan the matter is going worse day by day.

Milind

Milind — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Children? In Pakistan everybody is victim of violence and terrorism. What do you expect in a failed state. Musharraf is a king surrounded by people hungry for his flesh.

Ahmed

Ahmed — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Women and children always become soft target in violence because they are physically weak than male. Humans are killing humans how can we talk about humanity?

Melanie

Melanie — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

One can find the epidemic of violence against children in almost every country. People use violence against the weak members of society and children are the weakest of all. They become soft target in school, in orphanages, on the street, in refugee camps and war zones, in police custody, in factories and even in homes by those who are there to protect them.

Julie

Julie — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Street children are the worst victim of such violence because they have no one to get assistance while being threatened by law enforcers. Street boys are beaten by police and girls become the victim of sexual assault to avoid detention. It happens everywhere in India.

Andy

Andy — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In India, Police officials are the biggest enemy of street children. Police detain them often without sufficient reason and they become victim of brutal interrogations and torture. Even the places such as juvenile and criminal correctional institutions, children are abused and sexually assaulted. Some times, children are sent to jail with adult criminals that makes them subject to physical and sexual abuse also.

Sujeeshwa

Sujeeshwa — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Silence and inaction of the minor victims of violence allow such violence to continue because perpetrators of such crimes enjoy impunity in front of the eyes of the victims.

Tan

Tan — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Just like street children, Children in war zones face night mare every time and live the life at risk. They remain vulnerable to physical abuse, sexual violence, and cross-border attacks by the militias, locals, criminals and security forces also.

Haris

Haris — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Criminals committing violence against innocent children are no humans, they have been lost the mental balance.

Steph

Steph — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Children bomb is the worst terror concept ever heard in the world. We can do nothing but pray to the people - please don’t kill innocence of children, they are god on earth. you won’t even get the hell. stop making child militants right now...

Hemant

Hemant — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Children all around the world are facing the same fate, start talking about all the countries rude to their biggest and valuable assets - children.

Mariam

Mariam — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Why do people always target Pakistan while talking about evils???

Madushi

Madushi — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Violence against children can’t be accepted at any cost. just behead the people doing this. Al qaeda and LTTE, the two terror outfits, are the main culprits.

Mariam

Mariam — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In any war women and children are the worst victims. Women suffer most because they are often depended upon the menfolk for their daily bread. If it is a losing war, women become the spoils of war for the victors to be raped and plundered. Then the children are lost. We are seeing the same thing in Palestine and Iraq and Bosnia and Congo.

Yes you are right. Ultimately children suffer. They can’t do anything.

Puneet

Puneet — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Or what can we expect in country like Pakistan???

Ariza

Ariza — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Children and women always become soft targets in any violence. State should protect them but the state security agencies start exploiting them what is happening in Congo, Kenya and Iraq.

John

John — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Sarah from US wrote about recommendations given by International Women’s Forum to stop crime against children - How many countries are implementing these recommendations? This is the root of the problem we hardly implement such things in our countries.

Syed

Syed — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This is not only the problem in Pakistan but every country .. be it developed, developing or underdeveloped countries.

Haris

Haris — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

nothing is wrong in Pakistan, Musharraf is the right person and he does right all the time. I am saying this because I have to live in Pakistan.

Haris

Haris — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations to you Abdul Jabbar for writing such revealing truth of Pakistan.

Steven

Steven — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Pakistan is a failed state where every citizen is living life in fears. I recently visited Karachi and felt the fear on the face of common man after Karachi riots.

Farzad

Farzad — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Children and women are soft target of violence. Nothing new is happening in Pakistan.