Chi Mgbako, Fordham University School of Law, has published Witchcraft Legal Aid in Africa as Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1763924 and in the International Legal Tribune, February 2011. Here is the abstract.
Accusations of witchcraft in Africa have gained increasing attention because of the severe impact they can have on the lives of those accused, including imprisonment, deprivation of property, banishment from villages and in some cases physical violence. The human-rights law program I direct recently partnered with an N.G.O. in Malawi to run a mobile legal-aid clinic focusing on witchcraft cases in two rural communities.
Download the paper from SSRN at the link. Also available here.
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