45-year-old woman of Paraguay burnt alive for practicing witchcraft

Reports have come out of the terrible death of a 45-year-old woman of Paraguay who was apparently practicing witchcraft. It seems members of the Mbya Guarani ethnic group tied the woman to a wooden pole and shot arrows at her before they burned her alive.
The woman had been sentenced to death last week by the community's chief in Tahehyi, a village some 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of the capital, Asuncion.
The exact of the killing was not very clear but nine men in the village have been charged with first-degree murder, and they have already acknowledged killing the woman.
Incidentally, a report by the UN Refugee Agency estimates that thousands of people worldwide are accused of being witches every year and are often abused, cast out of their families and communities and, at times, pay for it with their lives.
Recently in October-2014, a woman in India was killed by relatives who suspected her of practicing witchcraft. The woman was stripped, beaten and tortured for hours by her brother-in-law and several other family members. She had been accused of making his son ill by practicing witchcraft on him.

Women are not safe in India – can be stripped and paraded naked in villages

This bit of news from a village in Jaipur is enough to shock us beyond belief because we pride ourselves of being in a country where women are held in high esteem and respected as mother or sister. How then can local panchayat leaders take the law into their own hands and take such inhuman decisions? The woman was suspected to have committed murder – why not refer the matter to the police?
The shameful incident happened in Thurval village which is located some seven km from Charbhuja town in Rajsamand district when members of a community panchayat in a tribal area of the district accused a 45-year-old woman of killing her nephew.
The decision of the panchayat was to blacken her face, strip and parade her on a donkey's back.
The decision was taken in a meeting and the punishment was meted out instantly.
When her husband came to know of this, he lodged an FIR and the police have arrested 30 persons in this connection - nine of them are believed to be from the victim's family.
The traumatized woman has been shifted to a shelter home for the time being and she was being counseled.
Woman paraded naked in Bihar – in July-2014, a middle-aged woman of Sirwara village in Madhubani district of Bihar was paraded naked with blackened face in the village. Her crime was that she had allegedly helped the daughter-in-law of an influential person to escape.
Woman accused of witchcraft paraded naked in Odisha – another incident of July-2014 - a 60-year-old woman accused of practicing witchcraft was beaten, stripped, paraded naked and tied to an electricity pole in a village in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha. Villagers blamed the death of an 18-year-old boy on the woman, saying she had practiced witchcraft on him even though medical records showed that he had died of malaria.