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Pakistan must review its legal provisions and implement existing legislation to ensure all individuals' rights to freedoms of thought, conscience and religion -- as enshrined in Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), of which it is a signatory.

This definition has been restated in the ICCPR Act of 2007*, which for the first time had a provision on the 'rights of a child' that is derived from CRC. However successive governments have not made any effort to remove anomalies in earlier legislation that refers to a different minimum age for childhood.

He also highlighted the fact that both the ICCPR and elements of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination – both of which have been ratified by the UK and other European countries – had sprung from a desire to avoid a repetition of the Holocaust.

These include Article 24 of the ICCPR (calling for the protection of children and registration at birth of their name and nationality) and Article 10 of the ICESCR (calling for specific attention, protection and assistance to children).

The Commission found that the failure by the Commonwealth was a violation of the right not to be detained arbitrarily under Article 9 of the ICCPR, a provision in the spirit of Magna Carta.

Among other rights found in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and shared with one or more of these instruments are: Many Articles of both the ICCPR and the ICESCR call attention to the special needs of families and children.

The government has also argued with the UN's interpretation of the ICCPR, claiming that "lawfulness" does not mean "lawful under international law" or that arbitrary detention is not lawful.

Additionally, the US respects the provisions of the ICCPR almost better than any other country.

The principle differs from that of the ICCPR, which obliges parties to "respect and to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction" the rights in that Convention.

It appears that these provisions of the ICCPR Act have been ignored even by child rights and human rights groups and activists.

Yet the provision in the ICCPR Act on enforcement of child rights in the Provincial High Court has not been used to challenge weak and ineffective law enforcement and give remedies and relief.