Humanitarian Protection for Fear of Witchcraft in Nigeria – Tribunale di Bologna, Ordinanza del 09/10/2017 (G.R. 17524/2016)
by Katia Bianchini
Question(s) at stake
Whether the Territorial Commissions for the Recognition of International Protection was correct to refuse the appellant’s application for humanitarian protection on the ground that the risk of harm for fear of witchcraft was implausible.
Outcome of the ruling
The Court granted the appellant a residence permit on grounds of humanitarian protection. It found that the risk of harm for fear of witchcraft was plausible.
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Official citation
Civil Court of Bologna, Order of 09 October 2017, G.R. 17524/2016 (Tribunale di Bologna, Ordinanza del 09/10/2017, G.R. 17524/2016)
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Humanitarian protection Witchcraft
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Katia Bianchini (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department Law and Anthropology, Germany)
Katia Bianchini is a Research Fellow of the Law and Anthropology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. She holds a law degree from the University of Pavia (Italy), an LL.M. in Comparative Laws from the University of San Diego (California, USA), and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of York (UK). Her doctoral thesis provided an empirical and legal analysis of how the 1954 UN Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons is implemented in ten EU states. She has also worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen). Before engaging in research, she practised immigration and refugee law for ten years in the UK and the USA.
Bianchini has published in the field of refugee law, statelessness, and the rule of law in the context of sea migration. Her current research builds on her expertise in human rights and Italian law and looks at the treatment of deceased sea migrants in the South of Italy.