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Child with albinism dismembered in Burundi

23rd February 2016 by Global Disability Watch

Albino child hand holding on mum's hand

The attacks on people with albinism (PWA) continue in Burundi, this time with the killing and dismembering of a five-year-old girl called Cimpaye.  Official reports claim that gunmen broke into the girl’s home at around 1am on the 17th of February. The men attacked her parents and took the child. Neighbours were alerted by the parents who went […]

Filed Under: Africa, News Tagged With: Africa, Albinism, Albino, Burundi

Disability in the SDGs: call for celebration?

18th February 2016 by Global Disability Watch

Sustainable Development Goals

The exclusion of disability from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the eight goals guiding the development agenda for the past 15 years was a critical concern, highlighting not only how deep the exclusion of disability from the development sector was. It perhaps resonated with the fact that disability was not even considered a development issue. […]

Filed Under: Disability and Development Tagged With: CRPD, DFID, Diane Kingston, Inclusive Decelopment, SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals, USAID

Disability and forced migration: the experience of a Syrian Doctor

18th February 2016 by Global Disability Watch

by Ayman Mostafa* Over the years, migration from the South to Europe, across the Mediterranean, has been the prerogative of the young and healthy; those who can withstand the long and arduous journey. Smuggling networks were well established and offered their services to those who could afford the trip, monetarily and physically. For Syrians, this […]

Filed Under: Africa, Disability and Migration, Europe Tagged With: Mediterranean, Middle East, Migration, North Africa, Refugees, Syria

Woman with albinism killed in Malawi: no isolated incident

18th February 2016 by Global Disability Watch

Vultures waiting

Protection of people with albinism remains a serious concern in Malawi as in other parts of Africa. The recent killing of Eunice Phiri, a 53-year-old woman with albinism, found on 28 January in the Kasungu National Park, is the latest in a spate of attacks on people with albinism (PWA). Both her arms had been chopped […]

Filed Under: Africa, News Tagged With: Albinism, Malawi

Broken bodies: hunting persons with albinism in Tanzania

18th February 2016 by Global Disability Watch

People with albinism are targeted because of their skin colour. They are also singled out because of beliefs about the properties of their body parts. In 2016, the persecution of people with albinism persists, especially in Tanzania where 1 in 1,400 people have albinism (compared to one in 20,000 in other countries). This is probably a […]

Filed Under: Africa, Reports Tagged With: Africa, Albinism, East Africa, Muti, Tanzania

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