Improving social practice for ensuring child rights stressed

RANGPUR, Apr 25 (BSS): Speakers at a workshop here have called for further improving social practice to ensure rights of all children, including girl children, for their normal growth, education and flourishing talents.

The today's children will lead the nation in future and every child has the right to get congenial atmosphere and facilities for safety, security, education, health care, foods, nutrition and shelter as per the UN Charter for children rights, they said.

They were addressing inaugural ceremony of a two-day workshop on 'Changing Social Practice about Child Marriage, Child Labour, Physical and Mental Torture on Children' arranged at the conference room of a local hotel here.

The District Women Affairs Office has been organising the workshop assistance of the Communication for Development (C4D) and Child Protection Sections of UNICEF Bangladesh with Enabling Environment for Child Rights (EECR) Project of the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs.