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50 more rescued
underage jockeys from UAE will arrive back home next
week, Ansar Burney:
LAHORE - 2nd July 2005
 The
Pakistan's widely known as human rights activist Ansar
Burney, Chairman; Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International
has announced on Sunday that Fifty more rescued underage
former child camel jockeys from UAE will arrive back
home next week.
The Pakistani prominent human rights activist Ansar
Burney, a person because of whom the UAE, Qatar and
Oman has banned use of underage children as Jockeys,
has said that dozens of underage Pakistani, Bangladeshi
and Sudanese children have already been rescued in UAE
and they are at present in the Children center at Abu
Dhabi where they are waiting for the traveling documents
and other necessary arrangements to go back to their
respective countries.
He said dozens of such Pakistani children will arrive
back home next week and will be rehabilitated soon.
He said all the 22 children came back from UAE last
month, are those who were already rescued in UAE and
those who were waiting for their traveling documents
in the Abu Dhabi Center.
"We have more than 100 rescued underage children
in Abu Dhabi Child care Center belongs from Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Oman and some of the African countries and
arrangements are being finalized to send them back to
their respective countries as early as possible".
Ansar Burney said.
The Great efforts of Pakistan’s renowned human
and civil rights activist, Ansar Burney, Advocate were
became fruitful when after UAE the Qatar government
also announced banned use of underage children to work
as child camel jockeys in Qatar. The Crown Prince of
Qatar in Doha announced severe punishments on use of
underage children as camel jockeys. Oman has also announced
to ban child slavery from September this month.
Because Ansar Burney’s great efforts to save
these children from slave labour and there release from
private jails in Middle Eastern and Arab Countries the
United States Department of State in it's annual 'Trafficking
in Persons' Report issued on 3rd of June 05, has highly
applauded the great efforts of Mr Burney, in the field
of human rights.
The State Department also declared the name of Ansar
Burney from Pakistan as International Hero.
The United States report with a caption 'HEROES ACTING
TO END MODERN-DAY SLAVERY' with a picture of Mr Burney,
lauded his great services for human rights in Pakistan
as well as internationally and declared him as International
HERO.
Ansar Burney, the pioneer in this field is the one
and only who brought world attention towards the plight
of these children and their use as camel jockeys and
slave labourers in private jails.
The human rights history has already been changed in
UAE, when a new law banning the use of underage children
came into force in March this year that was earlier
assured by the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and the Deputy
Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, General Sheikh
Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to Mr Ansar Burney and
Mrs Shaheen Burney, Chairman and Vice Chairperson of
the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International, in October
last year.
 The
great credit to stop this menace goes to Pakistan's
human rights activist, Ansar Burney, Advocate who played
a more than great role to stop the use of underage children
on slave labour from Middle Eastern countries.
The Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International had been
rigorously working for the rescue and rehabilitation
of these children long before the government took the
recent steps. In the last few years the Trust managed
to rescue hundreds of such children from the slave labour
and rehabilitated them in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri
Lanka, Yemen, India, Sudan, Ethiopia and other parts
of the world.
"Children as young as two and a half years are
used and abused by these people with no regret of their
actions or any fear of god. It is a gruesome idea that
torturing children and making them disabled at such
a young age is considered an enjoyable sport!"
Ansar Burney stated.
It may be recalled here that after the restrictions
from UAE Mr Burney visited Doha, Qatar where he met
with Her Highness Dr Sheikha Ghalia bint Mohammed Al
Thani, who heads a high-level committee set up by Amir
of Qatar, to combat human trafficking and Chairperson
of the Childhood Committee at the Supreme Council for
Family Affairs (SCFA). Mr Burney also met other high
officials and some foreign missions and discussed in
length with them to bane the use of underage children
working on slave labour as child camel jockeys in the
region and living at private jails.
Later the Qatar government also banned the use of underage
children as jockeys.
During his recent visits of Middle Eastern countries
Ansar Burney also visited Oman. In Muscat again Mr Burney
met the officials and discussed the human rights issue
of Child Camel Jockeys, with the Authorities.
According to Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International,
thousands of underage children as much as two and a
half to seven years old are living in Private Jails
and working on slave labour as ‘Child Camel Jockeys’
in the Middle East and other Arab region. They work
on slave labour from 17 to 18 hours every day and living
alike as in hell.
On the appeal of widely known as human rights ‘Saint’
Ansar Burney, the United Arab Emirates Leadership has
already abolished such inhuman practice of use of underage
children on 31st of March 05, from the UAE.
Last year in his efforts Mr Ansar Burney, member of
the American Bar Association (USA), International Bar
Association (UK) and Karachi Bar Association (Pakistan),
also visited the Camel race tracks in UAE, Qatar and
Muscat, rescued hundreds of kidnapped Pakistani, Bangladeshi
and underage children of other nationals to send them
back to their respective countries.
 Ansar
Burney said that these innocent children are brought
to the Middle Eastern and Arab countries from poor third
world countries, where they are either sold deliberately
by their parents to the traffickers in order to use
the money to support the rest of their family, or support
their own drug or drink habits; while others are kidnapped
and brought to these countries by the smuggler agents.
The hectic efforts of Ansar Burney, has changed the
history in Middle East as after UAE the Qatar has also
banned the use of underage children as jockeys.
It is believed that there could be as many as 35,000
to 40,000 innocent children working in this form of
slave labour, whose ages range from one and a half year
old to seven years, mostly from Asian countries such
as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Yemen
and Sudan working in the most miserable circumstances
in Arab countries.
These children, living wretched lives are abused and
tortured daily. They live and sleep in hot, crowded
huts made from corrugated irons sheets, without electricity
in the high desert temperatures of above 52 degrees
centigrade. Years of abuse has led these children to
have their upper legs flesh rubbed away, their bones
and body structures being damaged and their sexual organs
destroyed.
The food they are given in the camps is dirty and unhygienic,
worse than what is fed to the racing camels. They are
forced to train on the camels two or three times a day
in the boiling hot temperatures of the desert, after
which they have to serve their masters, do what ever
chores they are given and are sexually abused by the
men running the camps.
 During
training and in races, these children, mostly boys but
also some girls, often fall down and are badly injured
or crushed to death. Because the use of underage camel
jockeys is illegal, they are never taken to hospital
and receive no medical treatment. If they die, their
bodies are buried out in the desert in unmarked graves.
The children are fastened to camels with ropes and
Velcro to stop them from falling, but the ride is so
rough that many do fall. But all are left with deep
scars and cuts due to being tied down and forced to
ride the camels. One of the so called ‘advantages’
of using children as jockeys is that their terrified
painful cries make the camels run even faster.
The trafficking of children for use as camel jockeys
is strictly prohibited by the United Nations Convention
on the Rights of the Child and by ILO Conventions 29,
138 and 182 - all of which have been ratified by the
UAE, yet all this has been going on for many years.
Ansar Burney said.
Policemen stitched
lips of an under-trial prisoner in Pakistan:
26th June 2005
The Pakistan’s renowned human rights activist
and Chairman Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International,
Ansar Burney, Advocate has demanded immediate judicial
enquiry in the matter of barbaric act of police by stitching
of lips of an under trial prisoner in Vehari Prison
in the province of Punjab in Pakistan.
Ansar Burney said that an under trial prisoner Mohammed
Hussain was taken by the Vehari Police from Multan prison
to Vehari to produce him in a court in a case pending
against him in a Vehari court.
Member of the International Bar Association (UK), American
Bar Association (USA) and Karachi Bar Association (Pakistan)
Ansar Burney said that seven policemen of Vehari are
involved into the stitching of the lips of an under-trial
prisoner.
Ansar Burney said that an under trial prisoner, Muhammad
Hussain, now under treatment at the jail hospital.
“Prisoner Muhammad Hussain was driven to Vehari
from Multan central jail on June 22 to attend the court
for hearing in a case against him”. Mr Burney
added.
He said unfortunately the high officials even the concerned
court did not taken any action against the accused policemen
who involved in snitching the lips of an under trial
prisoner. Instead of arresting the involved Policemen
in a barbaric act, action was taken against Mohammed
Hussain. The Daniwal police in Vehari afterwards registered
a case against him for attempted suicide. In this process,
he could not be shifted back to the prison in Multan
and was kept illegally in the judicial lock-up for another
day.
Ansar Burney said that according to the information
and evidences received by the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust
International, on June 23, Muhammad Hussain and a policeman
Muhammad Din exchanged hot words and later on came to
blows. He prisoner started shouting and abusing the
policemen. Thereafter, his lips were allegedly stitched
by the policemen.
When Vehari police brought Muhammed Hussain back to
Multan central jail the prisoner had injuries on his
chin and cheeks. The prisoner told the jail authorities
that police had also kept him for some time in Vehari’s
Machhiwal police station.
Underage
'Child Camel Jockey' raped another felt down in UAE:
DUBAI, Aug. 26, 2004: One seven years old 'Child Camel
Jockey' boy raped and another five year old boy felt
down from camel and admitted in a hospital in UAE in
a critical manner.
 The
Chairman of the human rights groups Ansar Burney Welfare
Trust International, Prisoners Aid Society and Bureau
of Missing and Kidnapped Children/Persons, Ansar Burney,
Advocate who is on a visit to UAE to rescue some of
the small children on slave labour as much as one and
a half year to five years old, said this on Thursday.
Widely known as 'human rights Angel' Ansar Burney visited
Abu Dhab, Al-Aini and Ajman and meet the unfortunate
children.
"Five years old boy Shakeel felt down from a camel
and camel ran away from his chest and injured him critically
in Ajman". Ansar Burney said.
Ansar Burney further said that on Tuesday night i.e.
24th of August 04, another seven years old boy Nadeem
(7) son of Rashid, raped in Banyas, in Al-Ain child
camel jockey camp and his condition is also critical.
"Mother of Shakeel (7), Ms Firdous and father Rashid
took their child to police station to lodge the report
but police refused to do that later parents took him
to hospital as the blood was coming out from his back
part, even the hospital authorities refused to help
him after knowing that he belongs from child camel camp".
Ansar Burney added.
He said last week one another boy felt down in Abu
Dhabi and lost his life as Camels ran away from his
body.
He urged the authorities to stop such inhuman practice
in the greater interest of humanity and human rights.
Underage
child camel jockeys issue; Ansar Burney met Sheikha
Ghalia in Qatar:
DOHA/Qatar, 19th April 2005: Pakistan’s human
and civil rights activist and Chairman of the Ansar
Burney Welfare Trust International, Ansar Burney, Advocate
arrived here in Doha, on Tuesday, on a seven day visit
of Qatar, UAE and Oman.
On Tuesday morning, Mr Ansar Burney, Advocate in Doha,
met with Her Highness Dr Sheikha Ghalia bint Mohammed
Al Thani, who heads a high-level committee set up by
Amir of Qatar, to combat human trafficking and Chairperson
of the Childhood Committee at the Supreme Council for
Family Affairs (SCFA). She is also the Vice Chairperson
for the National Committee on Human Rights and Member
of the United Nations Committee for the Rights of the
Child.
In his meeting with Sheikha Ghalia, in Doha, Mr Burney
discussed with her the underage child camel jockeys
issue, house maids and the issue of young girls on prostitution
against there will in the region.
Sheikha Ghalia lauded the great efforts of Mr Ansar
Burney, in the field of global human rights matters
and assured him, her all out cooperation to the Ansar
Burney Welfare Trust International in the matters of
humanity and human rights.
During two hours meeting Mr Ansar Burney and Dr Sheikha
Ghalia also decided to build a rehabilitation Center
for the rescued underage child camel jockey children
in Doha and in future to work together in the matters
of humanity and human rights in the region.
 During
his stay in Qatar, Mr Burney will also meet other high
officials and some foreign missions to discuss with
them to bane the use of underage children working on
slave labour as child camel jockeys.
After two days stay in Doha, Ansar Burney will go to
Dubai on a three days visit of UAE. In Dubai again Mr
Burney will discuss the human rights issue of Child
Camel Jockeys, with the Authorities.
Ansar Burney, member of the International Bar Association
(UK), American Bar Association (USA) and Karachi Bar
Association (Pakistan) said that during his stay in
UAE, he will also discuss the underage child camel jockeys
issue, house maids and the issue of young girls on prostitution
against there will with the Authorities.
Ansar Burney, will also go to Oman to meet officials
to discuss the underage children on slave labour working
as child camel jockeys.
According to Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International,
thousands of underage children as much as two and a
half to seven years old are living in Private Jails
and working on slave labour as ‘Child Camel Jockeys’
in the Middle East and other Gulf region. They work
on slave labour from 17 to 18 hours every day and living
alike as in hell.
On the appeal of Ansar Burney, the United Arab Emirates
Leadership has already promised to abolish such inhuman
practice of use of underage children from the UAE from
this month.
Mr Ansar Burney, member of the American Bar Association
(USA), International Bar Association (UK) and Karachi
Bar Association (Pakistan), will also visit the Camel
race track in Qatar and Muscat to find some of the kidnapped
Pakistani, Bangladeshi and underage children of other
nationals.
1018 more Pakistani
prisoners deported from Oman arrives back home:
KARACHI, May 12, 2005: One Thousand and Eighteen, (1018)
more Pakistani prisoners arrested in Oman few months earlier
for illegal entry and employment, released and returned
back home on Thursday morning by two different Boats.
There release could become fruitful because of the hectic
efforts of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International,
Pakistan Embassy at Muscat, and kind cooperation of the
Oman government.
 At
the Ghasbander, Keemari they were received by the Chairman,
Ansar Burney, Vice Chairman Syed Fahad Burney, Incharge
Syed Sarim Burney and volunteers of the Ansar Burney
Welfare Trust International.
The 1018 men, including young as 11 years and older
as 75 years old, who were arrested over the past months,
arrived here in Boat, Al-Mohammadi and Al Fanan at Ghasbander,
Keemari, the port city of Karachi on Thursday morning,
after leaving the Oman capital of Muscat four days ago
on horrifying journey of sea.
These 1018 Pakistanis were released and came back home
because of the hectic efforts of Ansar Burney Welfare
Trust International, Pakistan Embassy at Muscat, and
kind co-operation of the Government of Oman.
The Vice Chairman of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust
International, Syed Fahad Burney, thanks and appreciated
the kind cooperation of the Government of Oman and Pakistan
Embassy at Muscat for the release and sending these
Pakistanis back.
At the arrival of 1018 released Pakistanis from Muscat,
at the Sea Port on Thursday, the Ansar Burney Welfare
Trust International has arranged special food, drinking
water, clothes, sleepers and other necessaries of life,
as they were hungry and thirsty during sea journey.
widely known as human rights 'Saint" Ansar Burney
also paid each Rupees 2000, cash money to most of the
returnees so that they could be able to go their homes
in far-flung areas.
Touching scenes were witnessed at the sea port, Keemari
as the returnees came out from the Cargo Boats Al-Fanan
and Al-Mohammadi, immediately felt down and bow down
to thank Almighty Allah who saved their lives and they
were been able to come back home. They were very grateful
to Mr Ansar Burney.
The Oman Boarder Security forces some time back, while
entering into Muscat Illegally arrested these Pakistanis.
According to the International human rights body, Ansar
Burney Welfare Trust International, over 100,000 Pakistanis
deported and came back to Pakistan in the last two years.
In the last four months the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust
International has been able to got release and brings
back more than ten thousand Pakistanis.
The Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International and its
Chairman, Ansar Burney by profession a senior lawyer
has played a wonderful role in this regard for the release
of these Pakistanis from abroad and their safe return
to Pakistan.
 Human
rights 'Saint' Ansar Burney said that unfortunately
the human trafficking from Pakistan has increased sharply.
He said that as more than 100,000 illegal immigrants
were deported back to Pakistan in the last two years
who had traveled to west, Arab and Middle Eastern countries,
either on forged documents, illegal entry or overstayed
there.
In the year 2004, a total of 54,469 Pakistanis were
deported from different countries on charges of traveling
either on fake documents, illegal entry or staying there
after the expiry of their visas. In the year 2003, a
total of 47,931 persons were deported to the country.
Only because of the great efforts of Ansar Burney Welfare
Trust International and cooperation from the Muscat,
more than 36,000 illegal Pakistani immigrants, mostly
labourers, were deported to Karachi by Sea. The deported
persons who landed by Air in 2003 were 34,518 and 32,480
in 2004.
The Ansar Burney Welfare Trust has so far been able
to secure release of more than 700,000 innocent prisoners
who were illegally imprisoned in Pakistan and abroad;
some released after as much as 50 to 55 years of illegal
confinement. Some were even born in prisons and mental
asylums where they grew up and lived as prisoners or
patients for 35 to 40 long years of their lives; only
released and rehabilitated with their families and society
because of the hectic efforts of Ansar Burney and the
ABWTI.
 The
Ansar Burney Welfare Trust has also arranged release
of around 20,000 persons from mental asylums and mental
wards of prisons. These were not mental cases but were
kept in these asylums by influential persons due to
their own vested interests.
Ansar Burney Welfare Trust has also been successful
in tracing out around 150,000 children through the Bureau
of Missing Persons who were safely delivered to their
families. These include children who were set free from
"kharkar" camps, child camel jockeys and young
girls who had been sold away for prostitution.
Ansar Burney is become a history in this field of humanity
and human rights. Ansar Burney is the one and only because
of efforts so many prisoners were released in Pakistan
and so many prisoners released and came back to Pakistan
after their release from foreign Jails.
US declared Ansar
Burney, Queen Silvia, Ricky Martin and 8 others as Human
Rights Heroes:
 Washington
DC, June 03 (HRNI): The United States Department of
State in it's 'Trafficking in Persons' Report issued
on 3rd of June (2005) has highly applauded the great
efforts of Pakistan's renowned human and civil rights
lawyer Ansar Burney, in the field of human rights.
The United States report with a caption 'HEROES
ACTING TO END MODERN-DAY SLAVERY' and picture
of Mr Ansar Burney, lauded the great services of Ansar
Burney Welfare Trust International for human rights
in Pakistan as well as internationally.
The US State Department with a special section in the
report, declared the names of Her Majesty Queen Silvia
of Sweden, Ansar Burney, Chairman, Ansar Burney Welfare
Trust International of Pakistan, Nancy Kassebaum, Former
U.S. Senator and Wife of Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Howard Baker, Ms Aida Mbodj, Family Minister of Govt.
of Senegal, Angelina Atyam, Co-Founder of Concerned
Parents' Association, Uganda, Somaly Mam and Pierre
Legros, Co-Founders, Acting for At-Risk Women (Agir
Pour Les Femmes En Situation Precaire-AFESIP), Southeast
Asia, Renowned American Pop Singer Ricky Martin, Founder
of the Ricky Martin Foundation, United States of America,
Sisters of Adoration, Slaves of the Blessed Sacrament
and of Charity, Lima, Peru, Adiba Umarova, Journalist,
Tajikistan, Dewi Hughes, Media Celebrity, Indonesia
and Amod Kanth, Inspector General of Police, Indian
Police Service as 'HEROES ACTING TO END MODERN-DAY SLAVERY'.
 According
to a US report; A noted Pakistani human rights activist,
Ansar Burney has worked relentlessly to bring to light
the plight of thousands of South Asian and African children
trafficked to Arabian Gulf countries for exploitation
as camel jockeys. These abused children, some as young
as two years of age, are purposely malnourished (to
keep them lightweight) and denied education. As a result
of Mr. Burney's efforts, the Government of the United
Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) established it’s first-ever
shelter for rescued child camel jockeys, and rescued
68 such children and repatriated 43 through the shelter.
Mr. Burney oversees this shelter. He is quick to point
out, however, that much more needs to be done to rescue,
rehabilitate, and repatriate thousands of trafficked
children throughout the Gulf region. (See www.ansarburney.org).
The name of Ansar Burney, Advocate is also mentioned
in different countries reports on Pakistan, Middle East
and Arab countries in which the great efforts of Mr.
Burney for international human rights issues are highly
lauded.
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