The provincial Minister for HR&MA Ijaz Alam Augustine presided departmental meeting at his camp office on Tuesday to improve the human rights situation in Punjab. Secretary HR&MA Tariq briefed to the minister that recently an important meeting held to review the status of implementation of 27 United Nations conventions at Civil Secretariat in which a review on responding to the European Union’s suggestions for UN conventions was also presented. He further briefed the performance of Human Rights department on safeguarding the basic human rights with the collaboration of all stakeholders. The minister extolled the efforts done by HR department and urged to give top priority to the protection of the rights of the children and women with an emphasis on bonded and child labour. Officials of Human Rights departments were also present in the meeting.
