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Child labour in Pakistan is the employment of children to work in Pakistan, which causes them mental, physical, moral and social harm. Child labour takes away the education from children. [ 1 ] The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan estimated that in the 1990s, 11 million children were working in the country , half of whom were under age ten.
UNICEF Pakistan works with the Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education, Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Provincial Social Welfare Departments, NGOs, and other UN agencies to protect children from abuse, exploitation, violence, and discrimination.
The United Nations Office at Geneva in Switzerland is the second biggest U.N. centre after the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.. United Nations specialized agencies are autonomous organizations working with the United Nations and each other through the co-ordinating machinery of the United Nations Economic and Social Council at the intergovernmental level, and through the Chief ...
Pakistan participates in all of the UN's specialized agencies. These include: United Nations Development program (UNDP), the World Food Programme (WFP), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD ...
The Khpal Kor Foundation is a non-governmental organization and a partner of UNICEF, [1] which serves children affected by years of conflict in Swat, Pakistan.Established in 1996 in Mingora, Pakistan, the foundation is an orphanage that provides free lodging, boarding, and standard education to more than 200 orphans.
Developing resilient energy systems to power health facilities in Pakistan could avert over 175,000 deaths in the country by 2030, a new new study by the United Nations children’s agency said ...
Documents of Edward Snowden showed in December 2013 that British and American intelligence agencies surveillance targets with the United States National Security Agency (NSA) included organisations such as the United Nations Development Programme, the UN's children's charity UNICEF and Médecins Sans Frontières and the Economic Community of ...
UNICEF (/ ˈ j uː n i ˌ s ɛ f / YOO-nee-SEF), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, [a] is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.