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As of 2020, Cameroon "currently prosecutes consensual same sex conduct more aggressively than almost any country in the world". [7] On 27 June 2022, the Human Rights Watch reported that the armed separatist fighters killed and injured people, raped a girl, and committed other grave human rights abuses across Cameroon’s Anglophone regions. The ...
Factions of secessionist militias have been battling government troops in Cameroon's two English-speaking regions since 2017, leading to thousands of deaths and displacing nearly 800,000 people.
The next day, United States Africa Command leader Thomas Waldhauser said the lack of transparency in the investigations into human rights violations by government soldiers could have a major impact on their ability to support Cameroon's counterterrorism efforts and challenged Biya to show greater transparency. [51]
The CHRDA is well known for its documentation of human rights violations during the Anglophone crisis, a civil war involving the Southern Cameroons region of Cameroon that started in 2017. In August 2018, the CHRDA published a list of 106 villages that had been raided and burnt down by Cameroonian government forces since October 2017.
The penal code of Cameroon allows for hanging or the firing squad to be utilized in executions. [1]Cameroon is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, both of which prohibit member nations from executing people who committed capital crimes before they turned 18, as well as pregnant women and the mothers of infants or ...
Human rights abuses in Cameroon (6 C, 3 P) Human rights abuses in Canada (15 C, 13 P) Human rights abuses in the Central African Republic (4 C, 2 P)
Cameroon's government is seeking to block France's LGBT+ rights ambassador from travelling to the country to hold a conference on gender and sexual identity, saying the discussion topics breach ...
They presented a draft for federalism which was condemned by the government, and on January 17, 2017, through a ministerial decree signed by minister Rene Emmanuel Sadi, the CACSC and SCNC were banned in Cameroon, and their activities were described as illegal and against the security and unity of Cameroon.