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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/child-sex-abuse-pakistan_55c8a9ede4b0f73b20b9d8ba
PAKISTAN’S HIDDEN SHAME – CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
DOCUMENTARY VIDEO: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x30v2wh_pakistans-hidden-shame-full-documentary_webcam
A documentary film on the child abuse in Peshawar, Pakistan. It features interviews with Rukhsana Malik, a brave social worker in the midst of it all, as well as with perpetrators and victims.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsId=51607#.Vcsa3a0w_mI
UNICEF Offers Support to Pakistan Authorities as Massive Child
Abuse Investigation Continues
In Pakistan, two children in a shelter in the Al-Khidmat
camp for displaced North Waziristan residents near Bannu, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Photo: IRIN
11 August 2015 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has offered its support to Pakistani
authorities as they open an investigation into emerging reports of widespread
abuses against children in the country’s district of Kasur, an agency official
has confirmed.
In a statement released earlier
this morning, Philippe Cori, UNICEF’s Regional Deputy-Director for South Asia,
described the recent reports of children being sexually abused over a period of
several years in the Kasur district as “appalling” and called for the affected
children and families to immediately receive any necessary care and protection.
“No child should suffer violence, abuse or exploitation.
The horrific crimes in Kasur underline how we must all do more to protect
children from such abuses,” Mr. Cori declared. “UNICEF is ready to expand its
work with local and national authorities to increase such efforts, so that no
child has to suffer these terrible horrors.”
Mr. Cori’s appeal comes as Pakistani authorities continue
their investigation into allegations that a gang of men reportedly abused more
than 200 children in a series of criminal acts beginning in 2006.
“UNICEF is working closely with the authorities in
Pakistan to prevent and respond to such issues affecting children, including
sexual violence and abuse,” the UNICEF official continued.
“We welcome efforts in Pakistan to tackle the issue of child abuse – including Pakistan signing, along with many other countries, the ‘We Protect’ statement of action to end on-line child sexual exploitation."