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60.
The Human Rights Adviser to the United Nations country team1 has helped raise
awareness of the situation and promote a common understanding among the Government,
the National Human Rights Institute, civil society and the United Nations on the need for a
concerted and human rights-based approach to address the issue. A strong United Nations
strategy for the protection and promotion of the rights of persons with albinism is being
developed, with a concrete action plan and monitoring framework, to complement the
Government’s efforts.
61.
Violence against people with albinism is not specific to the United Republic of
Tanzania. Since 2000, OHCHR has received information about more than 200 ritual attacks
in 15 African States. It is believed that many attacks remain undocumented and unreported,
owing to the stigma and secretiveness involved.
Zambia: promoting social inclusion of the Abatwa indigenous community
62.
The Abatwa indigenous community in Zambia has long been subjected to
discrimination, social exclusion and poverty. In an effort to raise awareness about that
situation, the United Nations Resident Coordinator and the United Nations country team
initiated a project with the Office of the Vice-President of Zambia to produce a film
documenting the situation of the Abatwa community. The Human Rights Adviser to the
country team1 provided guidance in order to ensure that the film would focus on the many
challenges facing the Abatwa community in terms of marginalization and discrimination,
and on the urgent need to ensure their participation in key decision-making. The
documentary looks at the situation of the Abatwa from a human rights perspective and has
become an important awareness-raising tool illustrating the deprivation and exclusion to
which the Abatwa have been subjected. It has also helped identify priority areas for United
Nations support to the Government to better address the situation of that vulnerable
community.
C.
Transparency, accountability and access to information
Ecuador: atlas of socioeconomic inequalities
63.
Between 2011 and 2013, at the request of the Government of Ecuador, OHCHR and
the National Secretariat for Planning and Development (SENPLADES) engaged in close
collaboration to strengthen the integration of human rights into the national development
programme. The work resulted in the adoption of guidelines for the development of sectoral
public policy and guidelines for the integration of a human rights-based approach into the
national development plan and the development of an atlas of socioeconomic inequalities.
64.
The atlas of socioeconomic inequalities, launched in 2013, was the result of close
cooperation between SENPLADES, OHCHR and other United Nations entities, the Centro
de Planificación y Estudio Social (Centre for Planning and Social Studies) and the
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. The atlas is an innovative database that maps gaps in
the realization of economic, social and cultural rights, and provides disaggregated data on a
wide range of determinants, including ethnicity, sex, gender, age and region. The
information contained in the atlas has made it possible to develop new social indicators that
are better suited to measure poverty from a multidimensional perspective. The atlas served
as a baseline for the National Strategy for Poverty Eradication and also provides data for
the implementation of the National Development Plan for the period 2014–2017. The
intention is to use the atlas in the years to come as a guide in the formulation and
implementation of targeted policies aimed at addressing persistent inequalities in Ecuador.
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