Human rights: Youth mobilisation needed for awareness
Participants at three-day IHRC conference pin change on new generation.
The delegates said the world community should come forward to enforce laws to curtail inhuman practices and ensure that there is no discrimination on the basis of gender. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
ISLAMABAD:
The youth should be mobilised to create mass awareness against human rights violations, human trafficking and child labour.
This was said by delegates attending the World Summit on Human Rights and Peace 2013 in Islamabad on Monday.
The three-day summit was organised by the International Human Rights Commission (IHRC).
The delegates held the political elite and governments of developing countries responsible for failure to ensure the basic necessities of life for their citizens and the poor implementation of laws to prevent human rights violations.
The issue of globalisation was also discussed at the summit.
Delegates said globalisation should not prevail in developing countries at the cost of the poor.
Amin Shahid, chairman IHRC, pointed out that “poverty has become a vicious circle in under developed countries.”
Shahid opined that as a result of bad governance, democratically-elected governments in developing countries have failed to help the poor.
The delegates said the world community should come forward to enforce laws to curtail inhuman practices and ensure that there is no discrimination on the basis of gender.
They said the youth should be recruited and tasked with actively campaigning to spread messages of peace and awareness of human
rights.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 26th, 2013.
The youth should be mobilised to create mass awareness against human rights violations, human trafficking and child labour.
This was said by delegates attending the World Summit on Human Rights and Peace 2013 in Islamabad on Monday.
The three-day summit was organised by the International Human Rights Commission (IHRC).
The delegates held the political elite and governments of developing countries responsible for failure to ensure the basic necessities of life for their citizens and the poor implementation of laws to prevent human rights violations.
The issue of globalisation was also discussed at the summit.
Delegates said globalisation should not prevail in developing countries at the cost of the poor.
Amin Shahid, chairman IHRC, pointed out that “poverty has become a vicious circle in under developed countries.”
Shahid opined that as a result of bad governance, democratically-elected governments in developing countries have failed to help the poor.
The delegates said the world community should come forward to enforce laws to curtail inhuman practices and ensure that there is no discrimination on the basis of gender.
They said the youth should be recruited and tasked with actively campaigning to spread messages of peace and awareness of human
rights.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 26th, 2013.