The Supreme Court Role in Pakistan for the Elimination of Child Abuse
According to the 2017 National census children counts 39% of the whole population; the maximum of people residing in the rural areas have a very less developed social sector, although people living in the urban areas have comparatively good facilities that are small in number. They have good service delivery in education, health, social welfare, employment opportunities, awareness; fertility rate is good while the mortality rate is less, safe sanitation facilities, clean water and other facilitations that are necessary for a sound social sector. The Human development index is very low as it stand at 147/188 in 2016; Pakistan invest a very small amount in education (2.3%), health (0.76%) and the other sectors are also in a fragile situation, more over the standard of education and health are the lowest in the world, the nutritional facilities available to the children are below standard.
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Child Abuses, Judicial Activism, Government Measures
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(1) Ahmad Raza
Department of Political Science, Qurtuba University, Dera Ismail Khan, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Siraj Khan
Nawab Allah Nawaz Khan Law College, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, KP, Pakistan
(3) Naghma Farid
Nawab Allah Nawaz Khan Law College, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, KP, Pakistan.
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APA : Raza, A., Khan, M. S., & Farid, N. (2017). The Supreme Court Role in Pakistan for the Elimination of Child Abuse. Global Regional Review, II(I), 491-500. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2017(II-I).36
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CHICAGO : Raza, Ahmad, Muhammad Siraj Khan, and Naghma Farid. 2017. "The Supreme Court Role in Pakistan for the Elimination of Child Abuse." Global Regional Review, II (I): 491-500 doi: 10.31703/grr.2017(II-I).36
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HARVARD : RAZA, A., KHAN, M. S. & FARID, N. 2017. The Supreme Court Role in Pakistan for the Elimination of Child Abuse. Global Regional Review, II, 491-500.
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MHRA : Raza, Ahmad, Muhammad Siraj Khan, and Naghma Farid. 2017. "The Supreme Court Role in Pakistan for the Elimination of Child Abuse." Global Regional Review, II: 491-500
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OXFORD : Raza, Ahmad, Khan, Muhammad Siraj, and Farid, Naghma (2017), "The Supreme Court Role in Pakistan for the Elimination of Child Abuse", Global Regional Review, II (I), 491-500
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TURABIAN : Raza, Ahmad, Muhammad Siraj Khan, and Naghma Farid. "The Supreme Court Role in Pakistan for the Elimination of Child Abuse." Global Regional Review II, no. I (2017): 491-500. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2017(II-I).36