They were of the view that the violation of child rights has touched its peak in Sindh. The Child Rights Movement (CRM) and the Sindh Human Rights Commission organised the consultative workshop on the implementation of the UPR at the Regent Plaza hotel on Tuesday.
“Our children should be given their due rights,” said Abdullah Langha, the provincial coordinator of CRM, DevCon. “Human rights-related issues could be controlled if the government practically implements its commitments with the international community.”
The UPR is a mechanism under which the Human Rights Council examines how human rights are upheld in every member state of the United Nations. Each country is examined once every four years. The UPR is an intergovernmental process whereby the human rights records of a given country are critiqued by other nations.
On October 30, 2012, the situation of human rights in Pakistan was reviewed by the member countries on the Human Rights Council in Geneva. Pakistan was given concrete recommendations for taking appropriate administrative, legislative and other important steps to improve the situation of children’s rights in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
Iqbal Detho from Save the Children presented the mechanism of the UPR and the role of government and civil society. “There is no interdepartmental coordination,” he pointed out.
Justice (retd) Majida Rizvi, the chairperson of the Sindh Human Rights Commission also stressed the importance of coordination. “It is very important to work in close coordination to help improve the indicator of human rights in Pakistan,” she said.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 1st, 2014.
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