UNICEF Child Protection Centres provide protective environment for street children in Pakistan

QUETTA, Pakistan, 14 November 2011 - For Nazdana, 15, the thought of playing with her friends outside used to fill her with anxiety. Whenever she would venture from the safety of her house in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s Balochistan province, she’d find herself subjected to the harassment of young men. Petrified, she and her friends would quickly run back into their houses, too afraid to stand up to the boys and ask them to stop their inappropriate and abusive behaviour.

© Unicef - lundi 14 novembre 2011