KARACHI, Dec 9: Various organizations are organizing various programmes on Saturday to celebrate the International Human Rights Day that is being observed around the globe on Dec 10.
A half-day programme is being organized by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan at the YMCA ground at noon. The programme comprises stage plays highlighting issues of human rights by street theatre groups and speeches highlighting issues being faced by the masses.
A musical show will also be held. Students from various educational institutions will also paint the YMCA wall depicting various human rights issues being faced by people.
A musical programme is being organized jointly by the Federal Human Rights Ministry and a noted social worker and artist Jimmy Engineer in the Youthful Offenders Industrial Home (Juvenile Jail) at 10 am.
A group of handicapped children from the Ida Rieu School and College for the Deaf and Blind, led by Mohammad Saleem, will sing various national as well as folk songs to entertain the inmates of the juvenile jail. Various sports contests will also be held among the inmates.
Clothes and gifts will be distributed among the children who are residing in the next-door Special Prison for Women. These children have not committed any crime but having nowhere else to go they are in jail with their mothers.
WALK HELD: Dastak, the drop-in centre, which is a daytime shelter for street children, organised a walk on Friday to highlight the plight of such youngsters, says APP.
It is a project of the Azad Foundation for street living children. The walk was organised to commemorate the International Human Rights Day. It started from the drop-in-centre and ended at the Karachi Press Club.
People including representatives of various NGOs and some 50 street children from Dastak and Dost drop-in-centres participated in the walk.
A statement of the organization said that street children were a deprived and neglected segment of society and their problems had always been ignored at every level.
There was a dire need to protect them from emotional, physical and sexual abuse, it was said.
