Lawmakers urge end to child marriages
Call for making CNIC a mandatory document for marriage
Child marriage. PHOTO: AFP
LAHORE:
A number of lawmakers from two major political parties resolved to increase the minimum age of marriage for girls in Punjab from 16 to 18 years and make the national identity card a mandatory document as evidence of age at the time of marriage.
They also announced to support a relevant amendment act which is pending in the Punjab Assembly and waiting for the approval.
This was announced during a press conference on “Say No To Child Brides,” which was held at Lahore Press Club by Bargad a leading youth development organization. MPAs Sadia Sohail Rana, Sumaira Bukhari, Bushra Anjum Butt, Uzma Kardar and Bargad Executive Director Sabiha Shaheen joined the press conference.
Child marriage and religious thought
Opinion
The writer is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Enactment and enforcement of legislation against child marriage has repeatedly run into resistance that claims religious authority. Overcoming this resistance will require a wider intellectual engagement with the foundations and structure of religious thought. Consider.
The latest report on Pakistan, based on figures contained in the Unicef database 2016, issued by the Center for Reproductive Rights makes for grim reading: “Child marriage in Pakistan constitutes an ongoing human rights violation on a large scale. Pakistan ranks sixth in the world in terms of the highest absolute numbers of child marriage. Twenty-one percent of girls in Pakistan are married by the age of 18. While child marriage affects both boys and girls in Pakistan, girls are disproportionately affected.”
Report: 1000 Girls Forcibly Converted to Islam in Pakistan Each Year
28 Dec 2020
Some 1,000 girls are forced to convert to Islam in Pakistan each year, according to a report Monday from the Associated Press (AP).
The forced conversions often take place as a prelude to non-consensual marriages and frequently involve underage girls, AP stated, a practice that has only increased during the long months of coronavirus lockdowns.
“Forced conversions thrive unchecked on a money-making web that involves Islamic clerics who solemnize the marriages, magistrates who legalize the unions and corrupt local police who aid the culprits by refusing to investigate or sabotaging investigations,” AP declared, citing child protection activists.
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Child Marriage An Episode Of Endless Malady The New Nation
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As of the report of 2019 the UNICEF found that 38 million women in Bangladesh were married before they were 18 and about 13 million were married before 15. The report also found that Bangladesh is ranked the 8th among the worst 10 countries with the highest rate of child marriage in the globe and the most vulnerable in South Asia.
Globally, Nigeria is the most vulnerable securing the number 1 position according to the status of child marriage along with other countries such as Niger, Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, South Sudan, Bangladesh, Guyana and Somalia going consecutively.
Centre for Social Justice organizes session on “Forced Conversion”
December 17, 2020
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) organized a session on “Forced Conversion” at Bright Hall School in Satellite Town Rawalpindi as part of a series of events initiated for the capacity building of minority leaders.
The session was organized under the auspices of the Coordinator Samuel Bashir and Jayaa Jaggi.
The session was joined by journalists, students, academia experts, civil society members and minority counselors.
Its purpose was to aware the participants regarding facts and figures and proper statistics of the cases of Forced Conversions from 2013 to 2020 and ignited a healthy debate to eradicate this problem from the society.