For several decades, Amnesty International has been gathering information about allegations of human rights violations carried out, ordered or condoned by Cameroonian government and security officials. This report documents abuses such as the restriction of freedoms of expression and association; ...
According to Amnesty International’s 2023 report, Human Rights Violations in Cameroon’s Anglophone North-West Region, human rights violation and injustice in the two anglophone regions, as well as the systematic undermining of the English common law system by the predominantly francophone government i...
Cameroon has failed to address concerns regarding persistent human rights violations being committed by Cameroonian security forces,” the previous White House statement said. “These violations include extrajudicial killings, arbitrary and unlawful detention, and torture.” ...
To the surprise of many, on October 1, 2021 CAR Minister of Justice Arnaud Djoubaye Abazène (a relative of Michel Djotodia) released the results of an investigation by a Special Commission of Inquiry into human rights violations in the CAR that implicated the CPC rebels, MINUSCA troops and ...
The EU representative also touched on the violence in the North West and South West regions of the country describing the situation as unacceptable. ” The persistence of violence and human rights violations in the north-west and south-west regions of Cameroon has resulted in an unacceptable numbe...
In the spring of 2015 in the city of Zelevet, Cameroonian troops blindfolded and beat two women and their two children and then shot them. This is not the first time Cameroonian security forces have been involved in human-rights violations. In 2017, Amnesty Internationaldocumented101 instances...
These human rights violations have occurred at the hands of government troops, anti-government rebel groups, and opportunistic gangs of bandits known locally as coupeurs de route[15]. At the time of this study, an estimated 80,000 had fled across CAR’s western border into Cameroon [13], ...
They are therefore accomplices to gross human rights violations as well as crimes against humanity in Cameroon. Continue reading "Riding the Tiger: Cameroon’s Rule of Men Regime By Tatah Mentan, Theodroe Lentz Professor of Peace and Security Studies" » ...
“These restrictions must stop immediately, and the Government must ensure a thorough, impartial and independent investigation into all allegations of human rights violations perpetrated during and after the events of 1 October. The Government must take effective measures to prosecute and sa...
Many Nigerians are also hoping that the new government will put an end to years of grave human rights abuses reportedly committed by security forces across the country. Human Rights Watch, one of the organisations that has documented rights violations in the country, has urged Tinubu to “rever...