Witchcraft
Witchcraft (or witchery) is the practice of magical skills, spells, and abilities. Witchcraft is a broad term that varies culturally and societally, and thus can be difficult to define with precision. Historically, the most common meaning is the use of supernatural means to cause harm to the innocent; this remains the meaning in most traditional cultures worldwide, notably the Indigenous cultures of Asia, Latin America, Africa, the African diaspora, and Indigenous Nations in the Americas.In the Philippines, as in many of these cultures, witches are viewed as those opposed to the sacred Indigenous religions. In contrast, anthropologists writing about healers …
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UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund · 17 April 2024 English
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of Tanzania is not the only country generating witchcraft accusations against data about how many people …
GFATM: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria · 26 March 2024 English
• Scale up investments to strengthen the capacity of the NTLCP, the NMCP and other key stakeholders for TB and malaria in order to increase their technical and operational capabilities …
differentiate between a cough and TB. They think TB is witchcraft. The immigrants think that it’s a Ugandan disease …
UN: The United Nations · 21 March 2024 English
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of harmful practices related to accusations of witchcraft and ritual attacks. The mandate had been closely …
SWP: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik · 12 March 2024
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> Ghana Ghana: The rights of women accused of witchcraft should be protected AI, 08.03.2024, 2 S. https://www …
HDRO: United Nations Human Development Report Office · 11 March 2024 English
The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Human Development Report Office …
aspects of our psychology, including our gions,3 witchcraft beliefs,4 kinship systems,5 collec- attention …
UN: The United Nations · 11 March 2024 English
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forced marriage, so-called “virginity testing”, witchcraft, violent or harmful initiation rites, and female … albinism and harmful practices linked to abuse of witchcraft and traditional practices, and to strengthen …
Amnesty International · 8 March 2024 English
civil society organizations are writing to the President of Ghana to reiterate their concerns about witchcraft accusations targeting mainly older women and threatening several of their human rights. …
Excellency, THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN ACCUSED OF WITCHCRAFT SHOULD BE PROTECTED As women’s rights are today … rights of countless people, especially women; witchcraft accusations targeting mainly older women threaten … proscribe witchcraft accusations. As in many parts of the world, the belief in witchcraft still exists … facilities have developed to shelter women accused of witchcraft. Mainly found in the Northern and North East … communities after being accused of practicing witchcraft. Allegations often stem from claims that the …
World Bank Group · 7 March 2024 English
Compared to other regions, Africa's population is considerably younger. Within Africa, the number of older people is projected to increase at a similarly rapid pace across all subregions from 2022 …
physical health decline have been accused of witchcraft, although it is not fully understood what drives …
PNG NRI: PNG National Research Institute · 7 March 2024 English
According SARV to the magistrates, the urgency of the SARV incident forces Village courts have a range of civil and criminal jurisdictions the village courts to intervene for the safety …
village court setting. In contrast, while these witchcraft allegation cases” (The National, 2 July 2020 …
UN: The United Nations · 26 February 2024 English
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discrimination against widows, accusations of witchcraft, jhuma, deuki and dhan- khaane; (b) Data …
