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PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN AND HUMAN RIGHTS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO DO.

1 August 2010

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari should use his UK visit to announce reforms in the country's northwest that will help combat human rights violations there, Amnesty International said on Monday.

President Zardari is due to arrive in the UK on Tuesday, amid increased focus by international leaders on Pakistan's response to the Taleban-led insurgency in its northwest tribal areas and in Afghanistan.

"The conditions are right for Pakistan to show it is serious about political solutions to the human rights violations, poverty, and constitutional rights vacuum in the northwest that allowed the Taleban to assert such control there in the first place," said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International's director for the Asia-Pacific programme.  

"The Pakistani people have suffered tremendously at the hands of the Taleban, but a predominantly military response has led to more than a million civilians still displaced and thousands of deaths while not dealing with the root of the problem."

Amnesty International called on President Zardari to deliver on his promise made on 14 August 2009 to reform the exclusionary laws that still govern the northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly North West Frontier Province).

The Frontier Crimes Regulation is a colonial-era law that excludes the population of FATA from the protection of the national courts and Constitution of Pakistan, allowing for collective military punishment and restricted electoral rights.  
 
"President Zardari should take this opportunity to answer his critics by announcing specific, major reforms, like the abolition of the Frontier Crimes Regulations that treat northwestern Pakistan like a human rights-free zone," said Sam Zarifi.  

Amnesty International also called on Zardari and UK Prime Minister David Cameron to incorporate real human rights benchmarks in their counter-terror efforts, and into development aid to Pakistan.  

Political reform and development will improve the region's human rights, and strengthen accountability and rule of law, which need to be at the core of any anti-terror strategy in Northwestern Pakistan, the organisation said.

"The UK and Pakistan government have to work together to deliver human rights and development for the people of the northwest. Aid to these regions will be wasted in the absence of political reform and guarantees of human rights," said Sam Zarifi.

The UK has pledged £600 million over five years in humanitarian aid to people affected by the conflict in the northwest, but needs to include human rights benchmarks in how that money is used, and to push for an end to enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention and mistreatment of detainees.  

Amnesty International released its report As if Hell Fell On Me: the Human Rights Crisis in Northwest Pakistan in June, which portrayed the civilians of the northwest as caught in a human-rights free zone, between Taleban rule and heavy-handed responses from the Pakistani military.

NO ONE CAN MAKE THIS WORLD PEACEFUL WITHOUT US.

TODAYS WOMEN THE MOST POWERFUL THE MOST INTELLIGENT.

Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms entitled to any person, regardless of economic status, nationality, jurisdiction, age, ability, ethnicity, sex, and sexuality. These basic rights are the right to life, freedom, equality, justice, and freedom of thought and expression.

In 1948, the world community spoke through the United Nations by establishing a framework for human rights awareness and protection with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This was the first time that the protection of human rights was officially declared an international responsibility. Since then, human rights education and awareness has taken root in countries all over the world. The UDHR is based on values that are shared by ancient philosophies and many religious traditions

DREAMING A PEACEFUL PAKISTAN.

The greatest challenge that the human race has ever faced still remains: to live in a world free of the threat of violence. Violence is not restricted to times of war; it exists everywhere: in homes, schools and communities. Where there is injustice, there is conflict.

Some argue that much of the conflict in world can be attributed to the existence of an oppressive social system of power that reinforces differences between groups and allows one group to have power or privilege over another group. Conflict at the local and international level can stem from exploitation, poverty, corrupt governance, resource scarcity, and dehumanizing beliefs. One popular theory states that as long as the global system relies on exploitive

CHILD LABOUR AND PAKISTAN.

• Total population (millions), 2004: 158 (i)
• - Annual population growth rate (%), 2005/15:1.9 (i)
• - Population under age 15 (% of total), 2005:37.2 (i)
• - Urban population (% of total), 2005:34.9 (i)
• - Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births), 2005:99 (i)
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•                                             - Youth literacy rate (%, age 15-24), 1995-2005:65.1 (i)
•                                             - Female youth literacy rate (%, age 15-24), 2005:53.1 (i)
•                                             - Primary school enrolment ratio (gross), 2000-2007: Male 74/Female 57 (ii)
•                                             - Secondary school enrolment ration (gross),2000-2007:: Male 34/Female 26 (ii)
•                                             - Net primary school attendance, 2000-2007: (%): Male 60/Female 51 (ii)
• •                                             - GDP/capita (PPP US$), 2005:2,370 (i)
  •                                             - Unemployment rate (% of labour force), 2005:7.7 (i)
  •         Source: 
    (i) Human Development Report 2007-08
    (ii) UNICEF: The State of the World’s Children 2009 - Population living below $2 a day (%), 1990/05:73.6 (i)
  
  
  CHILD LABOUR SITUATION IN PAKISTAN
  
  
  The National Child Labour survey ( 1 ), conducted in 1996 by the Federal Bureau of Statistics, found 3.3 million of the 40 million children (in the 5-14 years age group) to be economically active ( 2 ) on a full-time basis. Of the 3.3 million working children, 73 per cent (2.4 million) were boys and 27 per cent (0.9 million), girls. Children's contribution to work in rural areas is about eight times greater than in urban areas. The number of economically active children in the 10-14 years age group is more than four times the children in the 5-9 years age group.

  Rural children are mostly engaged in the agricultural sector (74 per cent), whereas in urban areas, most working children (31 per cent) are engaged in the manufacturing sector. In both areas, the percentage of girls working in manufacturing and services is higher than that of boys; this indicates that girls are more likely to work in the manufacturing and services sectors as compared to boys. It is also observed that in the non-agricultural sectors, most of the working children (93 per cent) are engaged in informal activities.

  A considerable proportion of the working children in the 5-14 years age group (46 per cent) are working more than the normal working hours, i.e. 35 hours per week, with 13 per cent working 56 hours or more per week. In urban areas, 73 per cent of the working children work more than the normal working hours, which is significantly higher than in rural areas (42 per cent). This shows that working conditions are generally worse in urban areas.

  According to survey findings, the major factors responsible for child labour were:

  • Large population with high population growth rate;
  • Almost three-fourths (70 per cent) of the total population living in rural areas, with subsistence agricultural activities;
  • Low productivity and prevalence of poverty;
  • Unpaid family helpers, especially in agricultural activities;
  • Discriminating social attitude towards girls and women;
  • Inadequate educational facilities.

  
  

  Working children come from large families in the low-income bracket. The average household size of working children was found to be eight members, which is higher than the national average. A higher proportion of economically active girls falls under households with nine plus members. The survey indicates that the most cogent reasons given by parents/guardians for letting their child work are to assist in house enterprise (69 per cent), and to supplement the household income (28 per cent). The former is pronounced in rural households, whereas the latter is more significant in urban families.

  One-third of the working children are literate, which shows that mere completion of primary education is not an effective deterrent to child labour. School enrolment indicates that economically active children who are not enrolled in school (34.2 per cent) are higher than economically active children combined with school (13.2 per cent). This shows that enrolment is negatively correlated with the involvement of children in economic activity. Education attainment is low because of limited opportunities resulting from inaccessibility of schools; inability of parents to afford schooling costs; irrelevance of school curriculum to real needs, and restrictions on girls' mobility in certain parts of the country.

Are we Equal to Men

"A social order in which women and men share the same opportunities and the same constraints on full participation in both the economic and the domestic realm."

Speak For Us

he distinction is strategically important for some strands of feminist theory and politics, particularly second-wave feminism, beTcause on it is premised the argument that gender is not biological destiny, and that the patriarchal oppression of women is a cultural phenomenon which need not necessarily follow from biological sexual differentiation. The distinction allows feminists to accept some form of natural sexual difference while criticizing gender inequality.

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Some historians believe that the history of violence against women is tied to the history of women being viewed as property and a gender role assigned to be subservient to men and also other women.

The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (1993) states that "violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women, which have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men and to the prevention of the full advancement of women, and that violence against women is one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into a subordinate position compared with men

In the 1870s courts in the United States stopped recognizing the common-law principle that a husband had the right to "physically chastise an errant wife". In the UK the traditional right of a husband to inflict moderate corporal punishment on his wife in order to keep her "within the bounds of duty" was removed in 1891.

The World Health Organization reports that violence against women puts an undue burden on health care services with women who have suffered violence being more likely to need health services and at higher cost, compared to women who have not suffered violence. Several studies have shown a link between poor treatment of women and international violence. These studies show that one of the best predictors of inter- and intranational violence is the maltreatment of women in the society.

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PAKISTAN GIRLS ARE COMING FORWARD FOR THE BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS.
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