Staff Correspondent
The National Human Rights Commission chairman, Kazi Riazul Haque, on Tuesday said violence against children was still rampant in the country due to a ‘culture of impunity’.
‘The offenders were not getting proper punishment and this abetted the violence against children alarmingly in the country,’ he said while addressing a discussion on child protection in NHRC office in Dhaka.
He also criticised the government for not formulating the rules for the Children Act 2013 despite four years have passed since the act was enacted. He also urged the government to establish a separate directorate for eight crore children in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum director Abdus Shahid Mahmood said on an average 33 children were killed while 49 were raped in every month of 2017. ‘The statistics suggest the vulnerability of children in the country,’ he said.
Child rights activist Sharifuddin Khan said the state was not committed to ensure security for the children. He also demanded the inclusion of domestic work as a risky job in the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2016.
Coalition for the Urban Poor executive director Khondker Rebeka Sun-Yat said government had stopped the birth registration process for the children for last few months, for which many street children were not getting admitted into the schools.
- Courtesy: New Age, Jan 10, 2018
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