Social campaign needed for child rights protection: Speakers

SUNDARGANJ(GAIBANDHA): Woman with children at Lokhiyarpara in Horirpur Union going to safe place as the whole union has been flooded yesterday.
SUNDARGANJ(GAIBANDHA): Woman with children at Lokhiyarpara in Horirpur Union going to safe place as the whole union has been flooded yesterday.
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BSS, Rajshahi :
As the present children will be the key players to take the nation forward in future their fundamental rights must be protected.
The children must be freed from all sorts of cruelties and inhuman behaviours, violation, repression and deprivation for building them as worthy citizens and social contributors.
Social responsibility and political will is very much important to this end. The observation came at a discussion and cultural programme for the children at Public Library conference hall in the city yesterday.
World Vision Bangladesh and Lady’s Organization for Social Welfare (LOFS), two non-government development organizations, arranged the meeting in association with Campaign Programme against violence against children.
LOFS Executive Director Shahnaz Parveen, editor of Daily Sonar Desh
Akbarul Hassan Millat, BLAST Coordinator Advocate Abdus Samad, development activist Aklima Khatun and college teacher Sakhina Khatun addressed the meeting.
LOFS Vice-president Azizur Rahman chaired the meeting. During his keynote presentation, Panel Lawyer Shahinul Haque said physical and mental development of children couldn’t be possible until they were protected from violence and deprivation since their early childhood.
Terming children as future power of the nation, he called for ensuring equal rights for development of their latent intelligence as they constitute a significant portion of the country’s total population.
Akbarul Hassan Millat said incidents of child murder, sexual harassment, suicide and trafficking have been increasing gradually as they are being deprived of their fundamental rights.
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