Senate body to be briefed on child abuse

The Senate special committee on the issue of incr­easing incidents of child abuse during its me­eting on October 16 had showed dissatisfaction over lack of a mechanism to have an official database about incidents of child sexual abuse.

The committee’s chairperson, Nuzhat Sadiq, had directed the human rights ministry to formulate a line of action and brief it on the issue during its next meeting.

A ministry official, Hassan Mangi, said the government had to depend on the data collected by non-gove­rnmental organisations. Acco­rding to a report, 3,445 cases of child abuse were reported last year, he said.

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