Child Labor and Child Abuse in Pakistan

Contents: Preface. 1. Child care in the Quran and Sunnah. 2. From child labour to child work/I.V. George. 3. Curbing child labour/Muzaffar Rizvi. 4. Save the world for our children/Syeda Shakeel. 5. Child rights and child labour global negligence/Amir Rauf Khawja. 6. Sex trade and male prostitution in Pakistan/Hussan Sajjad. 7. The issue of children trafficking in Pakistan. 8. Kidnapped children and children under detention. 9. Behind the bars/Muhammad Anwar. 10. The end of innocence/John Proctor. 11. Labouring through life/Jawad Ullah. 12. Carpet industry: its development and its link with child labour by UNICEF, Government of Punjab and IWCELP. 13. Condition of children involved in carpet weaving by UNICEF Government of Punjab and IWCELP. 14. Rehabilitation of carpet children/Zafar Samdani. 15. Children weave carpets: ILO survey/Ahmed Fraz Khan. 16. Pakistan has three million child workers/Narjis Zaidi. 17. Nineteen thousands child labourers in Peshawar: Sudhaar position on issues of child labour in Pakistan. 18. Child labour in Sialkot: opportunities and challenges: Sudhaar position on issues of child labour in Pakistan. 19. Eradication child labour/Muhammad Akmal Pasha. 20. The Tannery children of Kasur: social background/Shandana Khan Mohamad and Fawad Usman Khan. 21. Convention concerning minimum age for admission to employment (1973). 22. Working environment of the girl domestic servant in 16 localities of Lahoe, 1995/Naseer A. Chaudhry. 23. Convention on the rights of the child/Stevens Allens. 24. Physical and emotional child abuse/D.S. Akram. 25. The infant formula industry in Pakistan/Yesha Khan. 26. Female child in Pakistan: the deprived and neglected/Mehr Taj Roghani. 27. Prevention of childhood disability. 28. SAARC summit declarations - excerpts.

"In Pakistan, child trafficking has became rampant over the years and is going on with impurity. Various organizations, in the past, have found to be involved in this crime. Some of these traders had been caught while others remain on the rampage and, child trade continues to flourish every day, a number of children are lost or abducted, never to be found again by their parents. Some of these children are being kidnapped by the local gangs who would deal in any commodity that makes money, while some are merely run away who fall in the trap of abductors. Children are lifted from both remote areas and cities, but no protection can be provided to the parents regarding their abducted children. A majority of these children are smuggled into the Gulf states by their on way of trafficking.

Children trafficking are an act of exporting or importing children across borders and frontiers for the acquisition or money. The United Nation General Assembly 1994, defined child trafficking as. "The illicit and clandestine movement of persons across national borders, largely from developing countries and some countries with economies in transition. It the movement, Pakistan is faced with the problem of about 3.3 million children engaged in various forms of labour. 73 percent of the workers (2.4 million) are boys and 27 percent (900,000) girls. However, 400,000 children are working in urban areas. Among boys, 240 fell victim to sodomy while another 115 were subjected to gang sodomy in 2003."