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Sindh finally criminalises corporal punishment at schools, workplaces
July 28, 2021
Under the Sindh Prohibition of Corporal Punishment Act 2016, the provincial government has criminalised corporal punishment, mental torture and abuse of children at schools, madrasas and workplaces.
The school education & literacy department had notified the rules of the act on Monday, banning every kind of physical and mental violence against children. According to the rules, educational institutes are to ensure the protection and safety of their students. They are to also take every possible measure to protect and prevent the children under their care from physical punishment, mental torture and abuse.
The rules state that no student must be harmed physically, mentally or emotionally, or be subjected to abuse by any person employed in the institution, which may affect the mental or physical growth of the student.
June 12, 2021
On the eve of World Day Against Child Labour, the Hari Welfare Association (HWA) said on Friday that children in Sindh province were engaged in the worst forms of child labour with indecent and inhuman living and working conditions mainly because of the non-implementation of several bills related to them.
The rights body said the non-implementation of the Sindh Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2013, the Sindh Bonded Labour System Abolition Act, 2015, the Sindh Prohibition of Employment of Children Act, 2017, The Sindh Child Protection Authority Act, 2011, and Sindh Tenancy Act, 1950, posed question mark on a performance of the authorities in the province. It said that in Sindh, 6.4 million children were out of school, and the vast majority was engaged in child labour.