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Children in Pakistan may lawfully be sentenced to the Death Penalty, Life Imprisonment and Corporal Punishment
Advocacy Initiatives / Resources / Contacts
- The National Juvenile Justice Network
Civil society organisations working in the area of juvenile justice in Pakistan formed a National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN) in August 2010. On May 17, 2011, the NJJN, CRIN, and Defence for Children International launched their Campaign against Inhuman and Degrading Sentences for Child Offenders in Pakistan.
Download the Campaign Postcard. The postcard includes a joint letter addressed to the Prime Minister of Pakistan by the NJJN, CRIN and DCI-IS. 5000 copies of the postcard have been sent to organisations (including the media) and Child Rights Committees in 52 districts in Pakistan to gather the biggest number of signature before sending it the Prime Minister.- Download the Press Release from the launch.
- Read media coverage of the event.
Read the letter sent to the Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations
NJJN has appealed to the President of Pakistan to amend the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) and to fully implement the constitution of Pakistan through systems and mechanism so that grave human rights violations could be ended. Read press release
- Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC)
SPARC has developed a Juvenile Justice programme to improve the legal protection of juvenile offenders and to raise awareness on the difficulties children face in the legal system. The SPARC website also provides statistics on the number of juvenile offenders sentenced or currently being tried across the different provinces of Pakistan.
- SPARC, The State of Pakistan's Children: Chapter on Juvenile Justice (2010)
- SPARC, The State of Pakistan's Children: Chapter on Juvenile Justice (2009)
- Human Rights Watch:
- The Last Holdouts: Ending the Juvenile Death Penalty in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen, September 2008
- Enforcing the International Prohibition on the Juvenile Death Penalty, A Human Rights Watch submission for the Secretary-General's report on follow-up to General Assembly resolution 62/149 on a death penalty moratorium, May 2008
- UNICEF, Juvenile Justice in South Asia, Improving Protection for Children in Conflict with the Law, 2006
- The World Organisation Against Torture, Pakistan: Children excluded from juvenile justice reform, June 2004
- Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child - Pakistan (SPARC)
Tel: + 92 51 229 1553
Fax: + 92 51 229 1680
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Website: www.sparcpk.org
- Child Rights Legal Centre
Tel: +92 51 2221657
Fax: +92 51 2221628
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.pakistan.childrightsdesk.com
Are you working on this issue? Contact CRIN at [email protected]