PNP calls for bi-partisan children’s rights approach
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Opposition People’s National Party, through its Spokesman on Youth, Lisa Hanna, is calling for “a bipartisan approach to protect children’s rights”.
In a release today acknowledging May as Child’s Month, the party said that it is prepared to work together with the Government “in any effort to strengthen our laws protecting our children from abuse, neglect and exploitation”.
It also urged the Government to intensify efforts to maintain the gains made in child protection.
The release pointed out problems like sexual assault of children, child neglect, and the early age at which Jamaican children experience sexual encounters, and called for the efforts to overcome such problems to “supersede tribal politics and partisan approaches”.
The PNP said it had tabled a motion in Parliament to debate the need for a restructuring of current educational methods and/or development of new methods to ensure a re-enforcement of basic values and attitudes, and the building of healthy family relationships, saying it hoped the debate on the motion would proceed meaningfully and urgently.