Cameroon

May 29, 2018

Cameroon: Armed Separatists Holding School Principal

The kidnappers of a school principal in Cameroon’s Southwest province should immediately release her unharmed. The abductions of two principals took place on May 25, 2018, during heightened violence and abuses in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions, just days before national school exams began.

Attacks on Education

May 29, 2018 News Release

Cameroon: Armed Separatists Holding School Principal
Cameroon

February 27, 2018 News Release

Algeria: New Wave of Deportations
Refugee Rights

October 30, 2017 Commentary

End Cameroon’s Abuses of Refugees

Gerry Simpson
Associate Director, Refugee Rights Program

Published In: The Progressive

Videos Watch More

March 21, 2013 Video

Cameroon: Abuses in 'Homosexuality' Prosecutions
February 14, 2013 Video

Cameroon: Stop Threats to Lawyers

Reports More Reports

September 27, 2017

“They Forced Us Onto Trucks Like Animals”

Cameroon’s Mass Forced Return and Abuse of Nigerian Refugees
March 21, 2013

Guilty by Association

Human Rights Violations in the Enforcement of Cameroon’s Anti-Homosexuality Law
November 4, 2010

Criminalizing Identities

Rights Abuses in Cameroon based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

News

September 27, 2017 News Release

Cameroon: Mass Forced Return of Nigerian Refugees
March 13, 2017 Commentary

‘Your Children Will Die if You Don’t Stop’

Boris Dittrich
Advocacy Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program

Published In: Joop
July 12, 2016 News Release

Ban Forced Anal Exams Around World
December 15, 2014 Commentary

Escape From a Nightmare

Peter Bouckaert
Director, Emergencies

Published In: Foreign Policy
July 15, 2014 Dispatches

Dispatches: Eric Ohena Lembembe’s Unfinished Legacy

Neela Ghoshal
Senior Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program
November 29, 2013 News Release

World AIDS Day: HIV Groups Honored
September 25, 2013 News Release

Cameroon: Official Blames Activist for His Own Murder
September 20, 2013 Statement

UN Human Rights Council: Adoption of the Outcome of the UPR of Cameroon
September 12, 2013 Dispatches

Dispatch: Does Cameroon Support Violence Against LGBTI People?

Neela Ghoshal
Senior Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program
September 12, 2013 Letter

Cameroon: Letter to the Government Regarding 2013 UPR Recommendations
July 17, 2013 Commentary

Processing the Murder of Eric Ohena Lembembe

Neela Ghoshal
Senior Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program

Published In: The Daily Beast
July 16, 2013 News Release

Cameroon: LGBTI Rights Activist Found Dead, Tortured

Daily Brief

June 22, 2018

Hungary criminalizes basic human decency; Trump’s indefinite detention for children; Saudi crown prince's first year in power; US criminal justice system fuels poverty; Human Rights Council to speak out on Venezuela; How to make a North Korea deal work?; American Medical Association approves new LGBT policies; Turkey's elections.