Vision for the mandate 2016, para. 16

Párrafo
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It has been widely reported and documented that persons with albinism are hunted and physically attacked due to prevailing myths such as the misbelief that their body parts, when used in witchcraft rituals and potions or amulets, will induce wealth, good luck and political success. Other dangerous myths that facilitate the perpetration of attacks are those linked to perceptions of their appearance, including misbeliefs and myths that persons with albinism are not human beings, but ghosts, that they are subhuman and that they do not die, but disappear. An increase of those attacks, referred to as "ritual attacks", has been reported by civil society during periods of political elections.
Condicón jurídica
Non-negotiated soft law
Organismo
Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
Tipo de documento
Special Procedures' report
Medio de adopción
N.A.
Temas
  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
Año
2016
Tipo de párrafo
Other
Reference
IE Albinism, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/31/63, para. 16.
Paragraph number
16