ISLAMABAD:In connection with the World Children’s Day, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Monday organized a meeting.
The theme for this year’s World Children’s Day is Education: Giving Every Child the Right to Education.
The meeting focused on the out-of-school children in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT).
Senior member HRCP Nasreen Azhar said that according to a UNICEF report Pakistan has the world’s second-highest number of out-of-school children (OOSC) with an estimated 22.8 million children aged 5-16 not attending school, which comes to 44 percent of the total population in this age group.
According to Article 25-A of the Constitution of Pakistan, free and compulsory education will be provided to every child who is aged 5 to 16 years. However, Pakistan faces serious challenges in ensuring that all children, particularly the most disadvantaged, attend and stay in schools, she added..