Preliminary survey on the root causes of attacks and discrimination against persons with albinism 2016, para. 32
Párrafo- Paragraph text
- Such stories have also been reported in contemporary times. Village folklore describes how mothers are advised by midwives to sit on their babies or asphyxiate them at birth if they have albinism. In other cases, it seems that the child is left to die, with no food. Similarly, it has been reported that children with albinism have been instantly killed at birth for fear of the shame attached to the condition, or because of a belief that they bring bad luck. Other folklore describes practices such as drowning children with albinism in a lake or placing babies with albinism at the exit gate of a cow pen, where they are left to die from being trampled on by cattle. Still other folklore recounts the ritual killing of children with albinism, who have been accused of being witches, by putting them in bags and smashing the bags against a tree.
- 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
- Personas afectadas
- Children
- Infants
- Año
- 2016
- Tipo de párrafo
- Other
- Reference
- IE Albinism, Report to the UNGA (2016), A/71/255, para. 32.
- Paragraph number
- 32
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