Legal cover: Ombudsman offices to be set up in all districts

Special section dedicated to children’s rights will be part of the head office.


January 07, 2011
Legal cover: Ombudsman offices to be set up in all districts

PESHAWAR: Office of the Provincial Ombudsman will be set up at district level and a special section dedicated to children’s rights will be part of the head office.

Provincial Law Minister Barrister Arshad Abdullah said on Thursday that branches of the provincial ombudsman’s office would be established in all districts to address people’s grievances at their doorsteps.

Addressing a two-day workshop on the rights of children organized by the Children Complaint Office of the Federal Ombudsman Office, he said protecting child rights was a responsibility of the government and society.

The provincial government made legislation for improving and protecting child rights and approved Child Protection and Welfare Act 2010 in the provincial assembly.

In addition to rehabilitation centres for children, he said focus is being made to bring victimised children into the mainstream. The government is also striving to help 50,000 runaway children and focus is on vocational training for them. A special section for children will be set up at the Provincial Ombudsman Office where problems related to children shall be addressed, he maintained.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 7th, 2011.

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