MALAWI-UN-RIGHTS-ALBINOS

United Nations' Independent Expert on the Enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism Ikponwosa Ero addresses a press conference at the end of her official visit to Malawi on April 29, 2016. Malawi's estimated 10000 albinos "are an endangered group facing a risk of systematic extinction over time if nothing is done to stem the tide of atrocities," a UN expert warned on today. Ikponwosa Ero, a UN independent expert told journalists at the end of her 12-day assessment of rights of albinos in Malawi that the situation "constitutes an emergency, a crisis disturbing in its proportions." She said according to police, 65 cases of attacks, abductions and murders of albinos have been recorded since end of 2014. / AFP / Amos Gumulira (Photo credit should read AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP via Getty Images)