Lots on Thursday, for some reason. But of course you will all be at the CYP Now Awards like me so you'll have to set your video recorder, if you still have such a retro machine. I do.
Monday 23 November
Channel 4 8pm Dispatches: Return to Africa's Witch Children In 2008 Dispatches told the story of how children in Africa's Niger Delta were being denounced by Christian pastors as witches and wizards and then killed, tortured or abandoned by their own families. Child rights legislation came into force making it illegal to brand children as witches and some pastors were arrested. Financial support also poured in to assist a small British charity (Stepping Stones Nigeria) providing the only safe refuge for hundreds of youngsters attacked after claims that they were possessed by the Devil. In Return to Africa's Witch Children, Dispatches reveals what happened to some of the children and church leaders who originally featured, and discovers that even now children as young as two are still being stigmatised as witches and treated as outcasts.
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