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 […]
UN calls on Chile to protect disabled people from torture
Geneva, 26th April: The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) expressed serious concerns on the continued use of neurosurgery, electroconvulsive therapy and prolonged isolation in cells without basic services in Chile. It went on state how ‘Chile must explicitly end and prohibit the use of these and other cruel, inhuman or […]