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| Over 500 child sexual abuse cases surfaced in Islamabad in last 5 years, police tell Senate committee |
| 2019-01-08 |
| [DAWN] A Senate committee was informed on Monday that 300 cases of child sexual abuse were registered in Islamabad over the last five years, while another 260 cases went unregistered. Cases of child abuse have been on the rise in Pakistain. A report compiled by NGO Sahil last year reveals that more than 12 children are abused every day. Instances of child abuse rose 32 per cent in the first six months of 2018 compared to the corresponding period in 2017, it says. A Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR) official earlier told Dawn that 3,445 cases of child abuse had been reported last year, according to data collected by NGOs. Nuzhat Sadiq, the convener of the Senate special committee on the issue of increasing incidents of child abuse, raised concerns over human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... minister Shireen Mazari's absence from the committee's meeting today. "The surge in cases of child sexual abuse is a very important matter. The human rights minister did not attend the last session either," Sadiq noted, adding: "This is very non-serious of her." Ministry of Human Rights representatives told the Senate committee that Mazari "is at PM House" and were unsure whether she would be able to attend the session. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 'Over 500...' the real number, including abuse where people are too scared to report, is probably closer to 50,000 |
| Posted by: lord garth 2019-01-08 09:16 |