SAARC nations to set up uniform toll-free child helpline

May 11, 2016 22:32

SAARC nations today agreed on setting up a uniform child helpline in the region even as India offered support to South-Asian countries in expanding and upgrading their child helpline services to check violence

against children.

The three-day meeting of South Asia Initiative to End Violence Against Children, which concluded today, saw participation of ministers and delegates from SAARC nations who agreed to cooperate on information, communication and technology initiatives to trace missing children on the

lines of Track Child and Khoya Paya missing child tracking

websites.

Technical cooperation for programming on ICT initiatives to trace missing children, working towards setting up a toll-free helpline across the SAARC region, developing a regional strategy and common standards for addressing all forms of sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking were among the recommendations made at the meeting.

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