Muluka-Anne Miti-Drummond
Muluka-Anne Miti-Drummond | |
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Nationality | Zambian |
Education | University of Venda, University of Pretoria Faculty of Law and Open University |
Occupation | lawyer |
Employer | Amnesty International et al |
Muluka-Anne Miti-Drummond is a Zambian lawyer who became the United Nations Independent Expert on the "enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism".
Life
Miti-Drummond graduated with a law degree from the University of Venda in South Africa. Her master's degree is from the University of Pretoria Faculty of Law and she studied with the Open University to obtain a Master of Science degree in Development Management.[1]
Miti-Drummond has worked for Amnesty International using her knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese in their research. She has also worked until 2021 for the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute who support the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom.[1][2] She became the second United Nations Independent Expert on the "enjoyment of human rights by persons with Albinism" in August 2021.[2]
She has worked for the Southern Africa Litigation Centre. The centre has campaigned to get South Africa to adopt the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights. Miti-Drummond complained that the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (who is accused of genocide) was able to visit South Africa. In her opinion he should be arrested to face charges under international law.[3]
She visited Madagascar in September 2022 as part of her work on human rights and albinism. She wrote a report recording the positive measures they are taking in Madagascar to avoid discrimination and she made recommendation to the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2023.[4] During her term she has visited and reported on other countries including Brazil, Fiji, Kenya, Malawi, Panama and Tanzania.[5] In 2024 she submitted her report on the right to education by people with albinism to the 55th session of the UN's Human Rights Council.[6]
She has been a visiting fellow of Staffordshire University.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "About". International Network Against Witchcraft Accusation and Associated Harmful Practices. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ a b "Ms. Muluka-Anne Miti-Drummond, UN Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism". OHCHR. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
- ^ "We Join the Bullies". southern africa litigation centre. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
- ^ "Visit to Madagascar - Report of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism, Muluka-Anne Miti-Drummond (A/HRC/52/36/Add.1) - Madagascar | ReliefWeb". reliefweb.int. 2023-03-06. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ "Country visits".
- ^ "The right to education for persons with albinism". Right to Education Initiative. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
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Belarus (Anaïs Marin)
Burundi (Fortuné Gaetan Zongo)
Cambodia (Vitit Muntarbhorn)
Iran (Javaid Rehman)
Myanmar (Tom Andrews)
North Korea (Elizabeth Salmón)
Palestine (Francesca Albanese)
Russian Federation (Mariana Katzarova)
Somalia (Isha Dyfan)
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Thematic mandates
- Adequate Housing (Balakrishnan Rajagopal)
- Albinism (Muluka-Anne Miti-Drummond)
- Assembly and association (Gina Romero)
- Climate Change (Elisa Morgera)
- Contemporary Forms of Slavery (Tomoya Obokata)
- Cultural Rights (Alexandra Xanthaki)
- Democratic and Equitable International Order (Livingstone Sewanyana)
- Disabilities (Heba Hagrass)
- Education (Farida Shaheed)
- Effects of Economic Reform Policies and Foreign Debt on Human Rights (Attiya Waris)
- Environment (Astrid Puentes Riaño)
- Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions (Morris Tidball-Binz)
- Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association (Clément Nyaletsossi Voule)
- Freedom of Opinion and Expression (Irene Khan)
- Freedom of Religion or Belief (Nazila Ghanea)
- Human Rights Defenders (Mary Lawlor)
- Independence of Judges and Lawyers (Margaret Satterthwaite)
- Indigenous People (Francisco Cali Tzay)
- Internally Displaced Persons (Paula Gaviria Betancur)
- International Solidarity (Cecilia Bailliet)
- Leprosy (Beatriz Miranda-Galarza)
- Migrants (François Crépeau)
- Minority Issues (Fernand de Varennes)
- Negative Impact of the Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights (Alena Douhan)
- Physical and Mental Health (Tlaleng Mofokeng)
- Privacy (Ana Brian Nougrères)
- Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism (Ben Saul)
- Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (Ashwini K.P.)
- Right to Food (Michael Fakhri)
- Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children (Najat Maalla M'jid)
- Torture (Alice Jill Edwards)
- Trafficking in Persons (Siobhán Mullally)
- Transnational Corporations (Damilola Olawuyi)
- Truth, Justice, Reparation & non-Recurrence (Fabián Salvioli)
- Violence against Women (Reem Alsalem)
- Water and Sanitation (Pedro Arrojo Agudo)
- Illicit Movement of Toxic Waste (Marcos A. Orellana)