According to Articles 19 and 37, it is the state’s responsibility to protect children from all kind of abuse.
PESHAWAR: This is with reference to a report in your newspaper of January 6 regarding a case of abuse involving an eight-year-old student in a government primary school in Swat. According to it, the girl was beaten and expelled from her class, and also given a ‘bad character’ certificate by her teacher. This is most unfortunate and the provincial education department should take strict action against the teacher and the administration of this school.
It is sad that this happens in a country which several years ago ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. According to its Articles 19 and 37, it is the state’s responsibility to protect children from all kind of abuse and exploitation. Furthermore, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa assembly passed legislation in 2010 with the aim of checking the abuse of children and to proscute all those involved in it.
Imran Takkar
Published in The Express Tribune, January 9th, 2012.
