Resources
UN Resolution and Resources
UN Resolution
Resolution on the Elimination of Harmful practices related to Accusations of Witchcraft and Ritual Attacks (2021) Human Rights Council A/HRC/RES/47/8
Human Rights Council: Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Study (2023)
UN Declarations mentioning witchcraft
Links to related work
Education and Advocacy Resources
Advocacy resources
Policy and Legal Resources
Academic Resources
Global | Pacific Islands | Africa | South Asia | South East Asia | America | Europe | Theses
Global
Witchcraft beliefs around the world: An exploratory analysis. Boris Gershman
The regulation of witchcraft and sorcery practices and beliefs. Miranda Forsyth
Child abuse linked to faith or belief: working towards recognition in practice | Nursing Children and Young People | Tighe Clark, M., Littlemore, J., Taylor, J., Debelle, G. 2022
Pacific Islands
Sorcery talk, gender violence and the law in Vanuatu. John P. Taylor and Natalie G. Araújo
Witchcraft and sorcery-related killings in Melanesia: The Legal Issues. Miranda Forsyth
Preying on those close to home: witchcraft violence in a Papua New Guinea Village. Dan Jorgensen
For further publications concerning the issue in PNG, go here.
Africa
Self-defence against metaphysical witch attacks: A legal conundrum in Anglophone Africa. Emmanuel Sarpong Owasu, 2024
Child witchcraft confessions as an idiom of distress in Sierra Leone; results of a rapid qualitative inquiry and recommendations for mental health interventions. Yoder, H.N.C., de Jong, J.T.V.M., Tol, W.A. et al. 2021, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-021-00370-w,
Witchcraft-related abuse and murder of children with albinism in Sub-Saharan Africa: A conceptual review | Child Abuse Review | Taylor, J.; Lund, P., Bradbury-Jones, C. 2019
Children in African witch-hunts: An introduction for scientists and social workers. Felix Riedel
Witchcraft accusations and female homicide victimization in contemporary Ghana. Mensah Adinkrah
Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip. Pamela J. Steward, Andrew Strathern
Witchcraft accusations and Christianity in Africa. J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyad
Witchcraft and the state in South Africa. Johannes Harnischfeger
South Asia
Witch hunting: A case of gender violence in the garb of vigilantism in India. Mohammad Tarique Iqbal
Accusations of witchcraft in Nepal: Problems and impact on women. Raj Kumari Gurung
Witchcraft and witch unhting in India: An Assessment. Shamsher Alam, Aditya Raj
Divining evil: The state and witchcraft in Bastar. Nandini Sundar
Witchcraft: Pain, resistance and the ceremony of punishment—Mahasweta Devi’s Bayen. Vanya Vanashree
Theses
Accusations of spirit possession and witchcraft: Exploring the experiences and outcomes for accused and non-accused children within the family. 2022. PhD Thesis, University of Sussex, Leethen Bartholomew