MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 19: Students of various public and private educational institutions will stage a walk here on Monday under the aegis of a UK-based charity to mark the ‘Universal Children’s Day’.

A spokesman for Save the Children (SCUK) told newsmen here on Sunday that the walk would also be attended by AJK Minister for Social Welfare and Women Development Mrs Shamim Malick and Prime Minister’s adviser on elementary education Mrs Nahid Tariq.

November 20th marks the day on which the United Nation’s General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.

Children, the spokesman for the charity said, were the hardest hit community by the last year’s devastating earthquake in northern Pakistan and Azad Kashmir.

He said that a lot more needed to be done to provide them a better atmosphere to live and learn.

The spokesman said

that the walk would be followed by a function by the left bank of River Neelum where students would participate in different events to send a message to the authorities that they should take concrete steps to protect and promote children’s rights which in fact laid the basis for a thriving human rights culture.

He said the charity would conduct the programmes in collaboration with a local non-governmental organisation.