UN set to investigate albino killings in EA

>The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday decided to appoint an expert to investigate abuses suffered by albinos in East Africa. The 47-member council adopted by consensus a resolution establishing a three-year watchdog position. It expressed “grave concern at attacks and widespread violations against persons with albinism, including women and children, persons with disabilities and the elderly.”

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

Daily News

28 Mar

Kagera RC warns over albino killings

Kagera RC warns over albino killings
Daily News
KAGERA Regional Commisssioner, Mr John Mongella has called upon residents and leaders in the region to cooperate and end the senseless killing of people living with albinism. He warned that if person with albinism is killed, leaders and the entire ...

 

10 years ago

Daily News

07 Jul

14 on death row over albino killings

14 on death row over albino killings
Daily News
THE crackdown by the police on syndicates behind abductions, mutilations and killings of people with albinism has netted 133 suspects, 14 of whom have been convicted and sentenced to death, Home Affairs Minister Mathias Chikawe disclosed. “A total of ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Mar

We’ll end albino killings, vows JK

>President Jakaya Kikwete has expressed shock over the fresh wave of killings of people with albinism in the country, saying this barbaric cruelty, which has also given Tanzania a bad image, cannot be tolerated. In his first remarks since the renewed wave of attacks on albinos, which has subjected Tanzania to global condemnation, President Kikwete sought to absolve the government from blame, saying past efforts by his administration had stamped out the vice.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Mar

Govt not doing enough to end albino killings

The right to life is a constitutional right of every person in the world and such it is provided for in Article 14 of The Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania, 1977.

 

10 years ago

NEWS.Com.Au

15 Jan

Witchdoctors banned for albino killings

NEWS.com.au
Witchdoctors banned for albino killings
NEWS.com.au
TANZANIA has banned witchdoctors to try to stem a surge in murders of albinos, whose body parts are sold for witchcraft, officials say. “These so-called witches bear responsibility for the attacks against albinos,” interior ministry spokesman Isaac Nantanga ...
Albinos Killed in Tanzania for Money & Power Rituals | Government Bans ...Bella Naija
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Tanzania Bans...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

21 May

Albino killings hurt Tanzania’s image

>The resumption of albino killings has put the country, once again, in a difficult situation as far as its human rights records are concerned. Early last week 40-year-old Munghu Lugata was brutally murdered at her home in Mwachalala, a village in Simiyu Region.

 

10 years ago

BBC

Tanzanian vow to end albino killings

Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete pledges to end the killings of albinos, which he says has brought shame on the East African nation.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Mar

32 witchdoctors rounded up over albino killings: police

Police have arrested 32 suspected witchdoctors in connection with their involvement with the killing of albinos.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Mar

DEAR DIARY: Albino killings have to stop!

>Enough! Seriously, it is enough. These albino killings, they have to stop already. Hapana, we cannot keep going like this. It is completely unacceptable. Do you hear me? Unacceptable! What we see in the news, it cannot be happening in Tanzania; in our own land and around our clock. What has gotten to us?

 

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