Daily Times

Catwalk Event Management & Productions under the aegis of Catwalk Cares hosted an extremely important conference Stop Child Abuse Through Awareness & Commitment on Saturday at a local hotel.

Rabiya Javeri Agha, Secretary, Ministry Human Rights graced the event as the Chief Guest.

The underlying impetus of the conference was to raise awareness and shed light on the myriad types of abuse against children and to energise the populace to commit and find solutions to prevent abuse and protect children and their human rights.

Relevant topics that were highlighted during the ‘Stop Child Abuse’ conference included physical, mental and emotional violence against children, child sexual abuse, child prostitution and trafficking, child pornography/cyber crime; child labour; child domestic violence; child marriage, bullying and corporal punishment at schools among other related topics.

The conference included pertinent discussions and presentations related to the aforementioned topics and themes followed by Q&A sessions.

Relevant topics that were highlighted during the ‘Stop Child Abuse’ conference included physical, mental and emotional violence against children, child sexual abuse, child prostitution and trafficking, child pornography/cyber crime; child labour; child domestic violence; child marriage, bullying and corporal punishment at schools among other related topics

A diverse assembly of recognised and prominent speakers addressed these core issues. Speakers included Manizeh Bano, Sheena Hadi (Ahung Foundation) Senator Javed Jabbar and barrister, human rights lawyer, activist Hassan Niazi, singer and educationalist Shehzad Roy.

In addition, proactive children’s rights advocates at the conference also offered panel conversations including film and TV actors Sheheryar Munawar, Ahsan Khan, Zhalay Sarhadi and Sarwat Gilani, actor-director Angeline Malik; actor-producer Adnan Malik.; Rana Asif Habib (President Initiator Human Development Foundation), and Shaniera Akram.

Frieha Altaf, CEO at Catwalk & Catwalk Cares took the initiative of creating a platform to elucidate, educate and find solutions to deal with issues of childhood abuse and help survivors of childhood sexual abuse speak up.

Says Frieha Altaf:, “As CEO of Catwalk Cares, I am committed to creating a public platform where one can openly speak about all types of childhood abuse in order to raise awareness; create public commitment; prevent cases of childhood abuse transpiring and to hopefully one day eradicate this rampant epidemic which is threatening the future of our children.”