TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘Hunted like animals’
T2 - The conundrums of countering crimes against albinistic persons in the era of the UDHR
AU - Nkrumah, Bright
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - In recent times, many Africans with albinism have been maimed, raped and killed. These atrocities and affronts to the dignity of this endangered group is a sober reminder of the challenges ahead for Africa and the international community. The fight against this persecution is amongst others dependent on how successful the right to life and dignity protected in (inter)national instruments are concretised. The adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) has shown a slow but steady progress towards this concretisation. Even though the instrument has spawned a lavish structure of interlocking strands -treaties, procedures and institutions-all proclaiming to protect the rights of people, it fails to problematize unique African circumstances which confront persons with albinism today. To this end, the paper assesses some of these conundrums and makes recommendation on how to overcome them in order to forestall this crime.
AB - In recent times, many Africans with albinism have been maimed, raped and killed. These atrocities and affronts to the dignity of this endangered group is a sober reminder of the challenges ahead for Africa and the international community. The fight against this persecution is amongst others dependent on how successful the right to life and dignity protected in (inter)national instruments are concretised. The adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) has shown a slow but steady progress towards this concretisation. Even though the instrument has spawned a lavish structure of interlocking strands -treaties, procedures and institutions-all proclaiming to protect the rights of people, it fails to problematize unique African circumstances which confront persons with albinism today. To this end, the paper assesses some of these conundrums and makes recommendation on how to overcome them in order to forestall this crime.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2018.09.002
DO - 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2018.09.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054169923
SN - 1756-0616
VL - 55
SP - 52
EP - 59
JO - International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice
JF - International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice
ER -