Pakistan pushes for bolstering int’l cooperation to save under-threat children
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 11 (New York): Highlighting the multiple threat facing Children -- armed conflict, child labor, human trafficking -- Pakistan Thursday called for strengthened international cooperation to protect them from these heinous violations.
"The international community must not only address the root causes of such violence but also ensure stronger enforcement of legal frameworks that criminalize all forms of child abuse and exploitation," Ambassador Usman Iqbal Jadoon, deputy permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, told the UN General Assembly's Third Committee, which deals with social, humanitarian and cultural issues.
Speaking in a debate on Children's rights, he pointed out that in the Pact for the Future, which the world leaders adopted at UN Headquarters in Ne...