EU appeals to Tanzania to stop killings of people with albinism

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EU wants Tanzania to stop people's killings with albinism
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Dar es Salaam:The European Union (EU) in Tanzania Tuesday appealed to Tanzanian authorities to take all necessary measures to prevent further killings of people with albinism. Filiberto Sebregondi, the EU head of delegation to Tanzania, said in a letter to ...
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On 2nd March 2015 staff and Partners of EY Tanzania hosted Ms. Maria Stanford a representative from the society of people with albinism in Tanzania at EY offices in Oysterbay.

 The representative, herself a victim of brutality against people with albinism lost both of her arms to wicked people who broke into her house located near Lake Victoria in North-western Tanzania and managed to overcome her as she slept, cut-off and vanished with both her hands.

Although she later identified the...

On 2nd March 2015 staff and Partners of EY Tanzania hosted Ms. Maria Stanford a representative from the society of people with albinism in Tanzania at EY offices in Oysterbay.
 The representative, herself a victim of brutality against people with albinism lost both of her arms to wicked people who broke into her house located near Lake Victoria in North-western Tanzania and managed to overcome her as she slept, cut-off and vanished with both her hands. 
Although she later identified the...

The EU Ambassador to Tanzania Mr Filiberto C. Sebregondi listens to a a group of people living with albinism who called on him at his office in Dar es salaam, exasperated by the very recent violent attacks on persons with albinism which resulted in the killing of  one Mapambo Mashiri (53), a husband who died defending his wife who lives with albinism, Mungu Masaga (35). Sadly, despite his valiant efforts the perpetrators still cut-off her arm and harmed her children.  The EU Ambassador to...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called Thursday for increased protection for people with albinism, after the barbaric murder of a 40-year-old woman with albinism in north-western Tanzania on 12 May. 

“This killing and the terrible circumstances surrounding it sadly demonstrate that the human rights situation of people with albinism in Tanzania and other countries, remains dire,” Pillay said. 

According to police reports,...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called Thursday for increased protection for people with albinism, after the barbaric murder of a 40-year-old woman with albinism in north-western Tanzania on 12 May. “This killing and the terrible circumstances surrounding it sadly demonstrate that the human rights situation of people with albinism in Tanzania and other...

This photo essay discusses the interactions between international and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and governmental organizations on the one hand, and local populations and people with albinism on the other, in Tanzania. From the mid-2000s onward, international attention started to be drawn to the aggressions toward, and the murders of, people with albinism in the north-western part of Tanzania (Ntetema 2008).
To date, around 74 individuals with the condition are said to...

Freedom of movement to wherever one wishes to go, and at whatever time of day one chooses—so long as one doesn’t break the law—is a human right that is most basic and hence, taken for granted.