The history of mankind has experienced incessant petrifying and pestilential stories of child abuse. The imps of this sinister have stupefied the whole world because the children are the source of beauty and future’s human capital of a nation.
The probity of the humanity of orb even in the present age has failed shamefully and miserably to curb the preponderance of actors of this evil permanently. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child ennobled the obligations of the states for the wastrels in 1989 but the poignant situation still prevails with unprecedented proportion that has hemmed in the planet with a new mode of terrorism. Today the children of the world are in need of vaunted panaceas that can bring respite to their present and evolve a bright future for them.
The molestation of children in surreptitious way is a rampant phenomenon throughout the globe. In Pakistan, 6 children per day suffer the pangs of sexual abuse according to Sahil (an NGO).
The leading groups that are playing pivotal role in child abuse are acquaintances and teachers. Commercial sexual exploitation of children in Pakistan is a perfunctory affair.
In 2003, the media of Pakistan unraveled the news of sexual abuse and commercial prostitution of the students of Government Higher Secondary School No. 3, Peshawar by a gang of teachers for over two decades. Due to non existence of immaculate and limpid justice system, the whole story became dormant after a few days with vitiated repercussions.
The opprobrium of child abuse is also found in United States of America (USA) where 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys are sexually abused before the age of 18 according to NCA, 2008. The acts of some pedophile clergymen throughout the globe have also been an incremental source of holocaust and inferno to the heart-rending scenario.
The minimization and beating the perils of child abuse demand both long term and short term plans.
The establishment of child protection tribunals at primary level in each and every country would be a great leap forward in this regard. The imposition of death sentence for abusers should be introduced throughout the globe without any procrastination.
The crime investigative departments of various nations should sow the seeds of anti child abuse wings inside their respective secret organizations. These wings should be tasked with intelligence gathering and total elimination of child sexual abusers and criminals of incest from the face of the earth. The joint family system should be abolished in those communities in which the prevalence and incidence of child abuse are frequent. Furthermore, the culture of appointing female teachers in primary schools for imparting education should be promulgated and propagated throughout the globe.
Lastly, the states that have ratified the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) but have failed to protect their children from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse should be trialed in International Court of Justice (ICJ) and International Criminal Court (ICC) for flouting the norms of International Law. Protection of children is upheld as sacrosanct by each and every charter and ideology.
The world community and philanthropists must come forward to eliminate the atmosphere of claustrophobia and agoraphobia for children so that the tomorrow of today is free of gory details.