HRCP observes World Children's Day.

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...

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