Nida F

Rizwana is a normal 14 year old. She loves to dress up, play with dolls, laugh, look pretty. But she was sent into labour and beaten and tortured. Her limbs were broken, her head was smashed till the bone poked into her brain. She was forced to drink toilet cleaner and has burn marks all over her body from the acid burns and iron burns. Her teeth were smashed. She was left to rot in an empty house while the perpetrators went on holiday. When they returned she could barely breathe and her wounds had caught maggots. Especially on her head. Months and months of surgeries, hair removal, hair still not growing over the raw skin of her head wounds, skin grafting and she is still in hospital. Why this was done to her is hardly the question we need to ask. It’s evident. We expose poor children to self entitled monsters as a solution to poverty. These children are a source of income for parents who often have nine, ten of them, to make them work. They are trafficked by middle men as the cheapest most vulnerable form of slave labour. Those who speak kindly to these child slaves feel they are good people. Whereas it would be kinder to support the family and send the child to school to grow up, have a future and break the cycle of child trafficking and poverty. It would be kinder to make sure the constitution is followed and they be in full time education by five. In UK if a poor woman put her minor child to slave labour she would be arrested. It is not the responsibility of children to raise the economic status of their families. It is ours, the states, their parents and the adults of our countries responsibility. The woman who smashes up and tortured Rizwana is a mother of two and a school teacher. She is free on bail. Her husband a civil judge, reflects the joke of our own systems, as he slapped Rizwana many times and witnessed this brutality. He has been given a promotion recently. This is the farce of justice and progress in our country. Please change it. Please be part of the solution. Please raise voice for #JusticeForRizwana and #EndChildTrafficking. Now. Please demand a #ChildProtectionSystemPakistan. Now. Rizwana is like my daughter. But how many Rizwana’s have no voice? And how many #FatimaFariros will die raped and abused on cctv infront of a zombie nation and never get justice? Till when? Thank you. Photographs shared with consent of parents, Rizwana & local authorities. Please don’t share photographs of minors without such consent. In the last picture Rizwana is wearing a wig I got her. She still has no hair. She still struggles to walk. She is still on and out of hospitals for surgeries and skin grafts. While her perpetrators are rewarded and scot free. @NawazSharifMNS @MaryamNSharif @CMShehbaz @fbhutto @BBhuttoZardari @BakhtawarBZ @AseefaBZ @sherryrehman @Dr_YasminRashid @SalmanSufi7 @SyedKausarAbbas @kishwarenam @rabrabbit @saynotoweapons @naeem_zafar @AyeshaRaza13 @SarahAhmad_CPWB @UNICEF_Pakistan