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Malawi: Ccjp Demands Judicial Accountability in Cases of Killings of Persons With Albinism


The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) has challenged the Judiciary in Malawi to provide evidence of its commitment and seriousness in trying criminal cases bordering on attacks, abductions and killings of persons with albinism.

CCJP National Coordinator Boniface Chibwana observed that since the onset of persecutions and heinous criminal acts targeting persons with albinism, the courts have handled less than 30 percent of the cases brought before them.

Chibwana made the sentiments in Lilongwe on Tuesday during an engagement CCJP had with members from the Association of Persons with Albinism in Malawi (APAM), Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR), Standing Voice and Human Rights Consultative Committee, among others.

The Commission facilitated the engagement with funding from the Canadian Embassy through the Canadian Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI).

CCJP, Standing Voice and APAM are jointly implementing a project titled ‘Contributing Towards Effective and Enhanced Protection and Promotion of Rights of Women and Girls with Albinism through Self-Advocacy and Self-Activism in Malawi’.

The project, which is being implemented in Balaka and Mangochi under Mangochi Diocese with national level advocacy and lobbying activities anchored by the CCJP National Office, aims at enhancing and strengthening the promotion and protection of the rights of women and girls with albinism by building their self-advocacy and self-activism.

And speaking when he opened the engagement meeting at Riverside Hotel on Wednesday, Chibwana expressed disappointment with the lack of speed in the prosecution of cases involving persons with albinism.