Gender-Based Violence on February 17, 2024Gender-based violence (GBV) means violence committed against any person on basis of his/her gender or perceived gender. Any man, woman, child, older, transgender, or disabled person who belongs to any age, race, colour, language, religion, socio-economic, culture, nation, ethnic or territorial background can become the target of GBV. The main forms of GBV are physical, […]
Give Credit Where Due on February 2, 2024On 24 January 2024, the National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRC) successfully launched the policy brief on child trafficking in Pakistan in a ceremony held at Marriott Hotel Islamabad, in which state-of-the-art legislative / policy framework on the issue of child trafficking in Pakistan including recommendations for its effective improvement / implementation were […]
One-Stop Centers on January 9, 2024One-Stop Centers (OSC) both in private and public spaces have been established in some countries of the world to provide integrated multi-disciplinary free-of-cost support/assistance under one roof to women, girls including children affected by violence and abuse. OSC facilitate for provision of immediate emergency and non-emergency access to a range of services including medical, legal, […]
Child Housemaid Torture on August 11, 2023On 28 December 2016, the child domestic labour case ‘Tayyaba Torture Case’ received media attention when the pictures of 10 years old wounded housemaid went viral on social and electronic media, who was brutally tortured and abandoned in Islamabad by a convict Maheen Zafar and her husband co-convict Raja Khurram Ali khan former additional district […]
Child Trafficking in Pakistan on May 30, 2023Trafficking in Children is a form of modern-day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to exploit children for some type of forced labour/services or commercial sex work. A victim of child trafficking does not need to be transported from one location to another for the offence of trafficking to occur. Movement […]
Non-ratification of UNCRC by most powerful country on March 10, 2021The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children, regardless of their or their parents’ or legal guardian’s age, sex, gender, language, religion, ethnic, race, sexual […]
Juveniles’ executions on July 25, 2020Execution of mankind is a strict violation of human dignity and this violation reaches at its extreme, when a juvenile below the age of 18 years is handed down a death sentence or executed. The constitution of Pakistan protects the human rights of its citizens. Article 9 of the Constitution has assured the security of […]
Child-on-child sexual abuse on April 10, 2020Child-on-child sexual abuse is a form of child sexual abuse (CSA) in which a child is sexually abused by one or more other children and in which no adult is directly involved in sexually abusing the child. It also includes a child using physical force, threats, trickery or emotional manipulation to elicit cooperation, and non-coercive […]
Forensic psychiatry legislation on June 12, 2019Forensic psychiatry is a sub-speciality of psychiatry and is related to criminology. It encompasses the interface between law and psychiatry. There are two major areas of criminal evaluations in forensic psychiatry: competency to stand trial and mental state at the time of committing an offense. CST is the competency evaluation to determine that a defendant […]
Pre-conviction detention of juvenile inmates on April 2, 2019Under-trial prisoners (UTPs) or pre-conviction detainees are those prisoners, who are detained in prisons but their trials are in progress and they have not yet been convicted of the offence by any court of law. Pre-trial detainees on the other hand refer to those prisoners who are detained during pending investigations and trial courts have […]