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Accusations of Witchcraft and Associated Harmful Practices in the News Around the World

  • Haiti gang massacres around 180 people, targeting elderly over witchcraft fears

    By Harold Isaac
    Reuters
    10 December, 2024

    Image: https://unsplash.com/photos/woman-caring-toddlers-fA29oQ0cpcY

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  • Bay Area family charged in ‘exorcism’ death of 3-year-old girl will stand trial

    By Summer Lin
    Los Angeles Times
    23 May, 2024

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  • Libyan animal rights defenders freed after detention over 'witchcraft' accusations

    By Austin Cooper
    MENA, The New Arab
    4 April, 2024

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  • When Ruth Kissam buried the body of a woman accused of sorcery in PNG, it changed her life

    By Sarah Kanowski, Dan Smith and Meggie Morris for Conversations from the Pacific
    7 July, 2023

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  • How Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts throughout History

    Vicious attacks on women often accompany economic upheavals

    By Silvia Federici, Alice Markham-Cantor
    Scientific American May 2023 Issue
    1 May, 2023

    Image: A family member holds a portrait of Iquo Edet Eyo, who was killed in Nigeria in October 2022. Credit: Kholood Eid

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  • Seeing Witches: The cult-like church and the crash that rocked Victoria

    Simone Fox Koob, Amelia Adams and Laura Sparkes
    22 April, 2023

    Simiona Tuteru, a member of The Potter’s House Christian Fellowship, was the supervisor of the truck driver who killed four police officers on the Eastern Freeway in April, 2020.

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  • PAP reaches milestone with the launch of Guidelines on eliminating harmful practices, human rights violations

    Press Release
    Pan-African Parliament
    15 March, 2023

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  • Why did a Swiss Diocese abolish its exorcism ministry?

    By Solène Tadié
    National Catholic Register
    3 January, 2023

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  • African Union takes steps to stamp out witchcraft attacks

    By Sophie Edwards

    Two elderly women residing at the Kukuo Witch Camp located in the south district of northern Ghana. Photo by: Pacific Press Media Production Corp. / Alamy via Reuters Connect

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