From Kuwait Times: ‘No law to protect children’

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

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By Staff

KUWAIT: Although 40 percent of the population in this country are children, 60 percent of them are abused according to a conference on childhood and healthy upbringing at Bayt Lothan late on Monday.

These factors can lead to juvenile delinquencies such as drug abuse and violence according to speakers at the event, held under the patronage of Sheikha Firyal Duaij Al-Salman Al-Sabah head of Khair Al-Kuwait Charity Foundation.

The event was attended by Sheikh Sabah Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah on behalf of Sheikha Firyal. Public figures, social elites and governmental and non-governmental organization (NGO) representatives were also present.