SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
Violence against children in Schools is a great challenge for developing countries specially Pakistan. According to a report “Research carried out by Plan International and the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW) in five Asian countries found that Pakistan has the lowest levels of violence (43%) among all the schools in Asia.” Despite Pakistan having the lowest levels of violence, an international group has said that 43% is still a “distressingly high” rate. In Pakistan, the most pervasive forms of violence against children include neglect, corporal punishment meted out in schools, seminaries and households; child sexual abuse, acid attacks on girls, child marriages, killing and suicide, kidnapping and trafficking and recruitment of children in armed conflict.
The government has formulated a number of policies to counteract the various forms of violence against children. However, the policy initiatives undertaken by the government remain ineffective in face of a weak implementation regime. Furthermore, efforts to formulate an all encompassing policy to counteract violence against children are hampered by the absence of a reliable quantitative information base which would highlight the forms and magnitude of the problem in Pakistan.
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