Awareness session on juvenile justice

LAHORE:The Juvenile Justice Advocacy Network Pakistan (JJANP), a body established in 2023 under the aegis of Legal Awareness Watch and the Juvenile Justice Committee of the Lahore Bar Association, conducted an awareness session here.

The event aimed to mobilise key stakeholders for the effective implementation of the Juvenile Justice System Act (JJSA) 2018. Speaking to a diverse gathering of lawyers, probation officers, prosecutors, civil society members, and child rights activists, JJANP Convenor Sarmad Ali called for urgent and coordinated efforts to address the non-enforcement of the JJSA 2018, which was enacted over five years ago.

‘The law remains dormant in many parts of the country, and as a result, children in conflict with the law continue to suffer from systemic neglect and procedural injustices,’ Sarmad Ali said.