This report was submitted ahead of the the 72nd pre-sessional working group of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child as part of our campaign against inhuman sentencing of children - defined to include sentences of death, life imprisonment and corporal punishment.

The death penalty, life imprisonment and corporal punishment are lawful in Pakistan as sentences for offences committed while under the age of 18.

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Child Rights International Network

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pakistan_crc_submission_2015_crin.pdf

Countries

Pakistan

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