A/HRC/28/75 I. Background 1. In three recent seminal resolutions,1 the Human Rights Council expressed its concern about the situation of the human rights of persons with albinism. In the first resolution, adopted in June 2013, it condemned attacks against persons with albinism and requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to submit, at its twenty-fourth session in September 2013, a preliminary report on the ongoing attacks and discrimination against persons with albinism.2 2. In the second resolution, adopted in September 2013, the Council requested the Advisory Committee to prepare a study on the situation of human rights of persons with albinism and submit a report thereon to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-eighth session.3 3. In its third resolution, adopted in June 2014, the Human Rights Council recommended that the General Assembly proclaim 13 June International Albinism Awareness Day. On 18 November 2014, the General Assembly took note of the Council’s recommendation and decided to proclaim 13 June as International Albinism Awareness Day, with effect from 2015.4 4. In accordance with its mandate pursuant to Council resolution 24/33, the Advisory Committee, at its twelfth session in February 2014, established a drafting group tasked with the drafting of the report and designated the following experts as members of the drafting group: Mohamed Al Faihani, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes (Rapporteur), Mario Luis Coriolano, Latif Hüseynov, Kaoru Obata and Obiora Chinedu Okafor (Chairperson). 5. The Committee also decided to seek views and input from States and other stakeholders and, to that end, prepared a questionnaire requesting information on the status and treatment of persons with albinism around the world, which was disseminated in April 2014 to States, relevant special procedures, OHCHR field presences, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations. A total of 41 responses were received, including 15 from States: Azerbaijan, Burundi, Chile, Denmark, Georgia, Germany, Luxemburg, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Senegal, Slovenia, Spain, Swaziland and Tunisia; 9 from national human rights institutions in the following countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Malawi, Namibia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Romania, Rwanda and South Africa; 10 from the following non-governmental organizations: Amis des Etrangers au Togo; Bien-Être des Albinos de Côte d’Ivoire; the Elgon Foundation for Persons with Albinism (Uganda); the Uganda Albinos Association; the Albino Foundation (Nigeria); the Chinese Organization for Albinism; ALBA – Asociación española de ayuda a personas con albinismo (Spain); Genespoir (France); the Albinism Fellowship of Australia; and NOAH Albinismus Selbsthilfegruppe (Germany); and 7 from OHCHR, treaty monitoring bodies and special procedures: OHCHR in Occupied Palestinian Territory; OHCHR Regional Office for Southern Africa; OHCHR/United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO); 1 2 3 4 See Human Rights Council resolution 23/13 on attacks and discrimination against persons with albinism; Human Rights Council resolution 24/33 on technical cooperation for the prevention of attacks against persons with albinism; and Human Rights Council resolution 26/10 on International Albinism Awareness Day. Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Persons with albinism, 12 September 2013 (A/HRC/24/57), (“the OHCHR report”). Human Rights Council resolution 24/33, para. 1. See A/C.3/69/L.35/Rev.1. 3