Ali Lakhdir Maryam Pyar, Parpio Yasmin, Farooq Salima
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Department of School of Nursing and Midwifery, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
J Pak Med Assoc. 2017 Jan;67(1):126-127.
The dynamics of child abuse have been recognised as a global emerging social issue which is highly associated with child humiliation. The Government of Pakistan has taken many initiatives for addressing issues regarding child abuse and neglect and has designed laws to protect children against exploitation, abuse and violence; however, most of them are not enforced at all or poorly implemented due to lack of proper definition of child abuse and related terms, and different ways of reporting child abuse cases. Most of the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Pakistan target extreme cases of child sexual abuse such as child rape or commercial sexual exploitation of children, but cases of physical and psychological abuse are under-reported by the NGOs most of the time. A proper surveillance system is therefore required to identify the hidden cases of all types of child abuse that can lead to effective policy formulation and implementation.
虐待儿童的动态情况已被视为一个全球新出现的社会问题，这与儿童羞辱高度相关。巴基斯坦政府已采取多项举措来解决虐待和忽视儿童的问题，并制定了法律以保护儿童免受剥削、虐待和暴力侵害；然而，由于对虐待儿童及相关术语缺乏恰当定义，以及举报虐待儿童案件的方式各异，其中大多数法律根本未得到执行或执行不力。巴基斯坦的大多数非政府组织将儿童性虐待的极端案例作为目标，例如儿童强奸或对儿童的商业性剥削，但非政府组织大多时候对身体和心理虐待案例的报告不足。因此，需要一个适当的监测系统来识别各类虐待儿童的隐藏案例，从而能够制定和实施有效的政策。
