PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Sub-Saharan Africa: Albinism (14 June 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will raise the issue of attacks on and murders of people with albinism with his counterparts in sub-Saharan African countries.

Asked by:
Mark Pritchard (Conservative)

The UK strongly believes that everyone, everywhere, should enjoy the rights and freedoms set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We are concerned by any reports of violence perpetrated against people with albinism. Our High Commissioner to Malawi raised this issue during his meeting with the Malawian Foreign Minister on 27 April and we will continue to raise concerns about human rights violations and abuses in the region when the opportunities arise.

Answered by:
Sir James Duddridge (Conservative)
1 July 2016