{"id":19986,"date":"2025-09-22T00:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=19986"},"modified":"2025-09-22T00:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:04:17","slug":"conviction-rate-low-in-child-marriage-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=19986","title":{"rendered":"Conviction rate low in child-marriage cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Civil society representatives urged the Sindh government to strictly enforce the Child Marriage Restraint Act, warning that underage marriages remain rampant due to poor implementation.<\/p>\n<p>At a dialogue in Mirpurkhas, organised by the Hari Welfare Association, activists and officials expressed alarm over the persistence of the practice.<\/p>\n<p>The event also marked the launch of a district-level civil society forum focused on protecting child rights and preventing early marriages.<\/p>\n<p>Hari Welfare Association&#8217;s executive, Akram Khaskheli, cited Sindh police data showing that from 2018 to 2024, 272 FIRs were registered under the Act, but only 30 convictions were secured-23 in Hyderabad and none in Karachi or Sukkur.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that the figures underreport the actual scale of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Director Social Welfare Department said the forum could bridge gaps between communities and state agencies.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil society representatives urged the Sindh government to strictly enforce the Child Marriage Restraint Act, warning that underage marriages remain rampant due to poor implementation. At a dialogue in Mirpurkhas, organised by the Hari Welfare Association, activists and officials expressed alarm over the persistence of the practice. The event also marked the launch of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}