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UN Report on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism

3rd March 2018 by Global Disability Watch

The report written by the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism, Ms. Ikponwosa Ero, has just been published. While the report addresses in large the right to health, it also tackles more established and urgent concerns including the much reported attacks on people with albinism, human rights violations and discrimination. The […]

Filed Under: Africa, Reports Tagged With: Albinism, UN report

Albinism in Burundi: new report submitted to UN Committee Against Torture

7th July 2016 by Global Disability Watch

blood in water

A new report has just been published by the international organisation Under the Same Sun addressing the torture of people with albinism in Burundi. The report has been submitted to the UN Committee Against Torture, Session 58. People with albinism in Burundi regularly face torture. They are ritually hunted, attacked and murdered. Limbs and digits […]

Filed Under: Africa, Reports Tagged With: Albinism, Burundi, Torture

Attacks on people with albinism in Africa: European Parliament calls for end to impunity

7th July 2016 by Global Disability Watch

Child with albinism standing in between straw huts

STRASBOURG 7th July:  Today, the European Parliament called on African countries to end the impunity in relation to the persecution and killing of people with albinism (PWA), focusing in particular on Malawi, where an estimated 10,000 people are people with albinism. The attacks motivated by superstitious beliefs about the properties of these body parts has given rise to organised […]

Filed Under: Africa, Policy Watch Tagged With: Africa, Albinism, EU Resolution Albimism, European Parlament

People with albinism in Malawi risk systemic extinction, UN expert claims

1st May 2016 by Global Disability Watch

GENEVA: 29 April 2016: Ikponwosa Ero, The United Nations Independent Expert on the rights of persons with albinism,  expressed serious concerns about the attacks, mutilation and killing of persons with albinism in Malawi. Superstitious beliefs about the magical properties of the body parts of PWA, have given rise to a critical crisis where PWA are hunted […]

Filed Under: Africa, Reports Tagged With: Albinism, Malawi, UN report

First independent expert report on albinism presented to Human Rights Council

23rd March 2016 by Global Disability Watch

The very first report by the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism (PWA), Ikponwosa Ero, has recently been presented to the Human Rights Council. In this unprecedented report, the Independent Expert presents a number of reflections on the human rights situation of persons with albinism alongside her vision on […]

Filed Under: Africa, Policy Watch Tagged With: Albinism, UN report

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