i.
Measures of rehabilitation
397. The Applicants pray the Court for the following measures of rehabilitation:
i.
Assemble
a
committee
of
government
officials,
civil
society
representatives, PWA or their representatives to identify victims of
attacks to provide them with rehabilitation measures;
ii.
Provide adequate housing to the families of PWA who have had to flee
their homes as a result of attacks on them or their children;
iii. Ensure that children affected by attacks against PWA are provided
special educational and vocational assistance programs; and
iv. Ensure that holding centres for children with albinism are conducive for
growth and development and plan for long term reintegration with their
families.
398. The Respondent State prays the Court to reject the Applicant’s request.
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399. The Court observes that measures of rehabilitation attempt to restore the
health and well-being through the provision of “medical and psychological
care as well as legal and social services.”114 The measures for rehabilitation
are provided to “reduce the anger and frustration that might otherwise lead
victims, their families or their communities to engage in vigilante justice and
further cycles of violence and abuse.”115
400. The Court recalls its finding herein that the PWA have suffered various
psychological prejudice resulting from the stigma, the attacks that they have
suffered and the general climate of fear in which they live in.
114
United Nations, Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims
of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International
Humanitarian Law, par. 2(c), 3(d), 11 (Dec. 16, 2005) [hereinafter “U.N. Basic Principles”] § 21.
115 African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Comparative Study on the Law and Practice of
Reparations for Human Rights Violations (September 2019).
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