reasonable time to remedy the violations found by the Court and to inform
the Court of the measures taken.”113
394. In the present case, the Court has found inadequacy in the laws of the
Respondent State in relation to laws that criminalize and punish acts of
violence against PWA. Furthermore, the Court has found that the laws of
the Respondent State do not clearly distinguish witchdoctors from traditional
healers.
395. Moreover, the Court notes its finding that the Respondent State has failed
to safeguard the rights of PWA by failing to exercise due diligence in
preventing attacks, investigating them as well as prosecuting offenders and
sentencing them accordingly.
396. The Court therefore orders the Respondent State to take all necessary
measures, within two years of notification of this judgment, to:
a. Amend existing laws in order to criminalize and punish acts of violence
that target persons with albinism treating such acts as having being
committed under aggravated circumstances;
b. Amend the Witchcraft Act, 1928, Chapter 18 of the Laws of Tanzania,
in order clarify ambiguities in relation to witchcraft and traditional health
practices and
c. Finalize, promulgate and implement its national plan on the promotion
and protection of the rights of PWA, as it undertook to do during the
public hearing in the present matter, in conformity with the “African
Union Plan of Action to End Attacks and other Human Rights
Violations Targeting Persons with Albinism in Africa” (2021-2031).
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Tanganyika Law Society and Reverend Christopher Mtikila v. United Republic of Tanzania (merits)
(14 June 2013) 1 AfCLR 34, § 126.
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