Cameroon

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November 6, 2018

Free Cameroon’s Kidnapped School Children

Just before dawn on Monday, November 5, unknown gunmen abducted around 79 school children from dormitories at Presbyterian Secondary School Nkwen in Bamenda, a town in Cameroon’s Anglophone North-West region. This horrific kidnapping is the latest escalation in the country’s spiraling violence.

Children's Rights

November 6, 2018 Dispatches

Free Cameroon’s Kidnapped School Children

Jonathan Pedneault
Researcher, Emergencies
Children's Rights

July 23, 2018 Commentary

Cameroon’s Schools Are Under Attack, And The UK Can Help Stop It

Bede Sheppard
Deputy Director, Children's Rights Division

Published In: Politics.co.uk
Children's Rights

July 19, 2018 News Release

Cameroon: Killings, Destruction in Anglophone Regions

Videos Watch More

March 21, 2013 Video

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

Cameroon: Stop Threats to Lawyers
July 19, 2018 Video

Video: Cameroon in Crisis

Reports More Reports

July 19, 2018

“These Killings Can Be Stopped”

Abuses by Government and Separatist Groups in Cameroon’s Anglophone Regions
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

News

September 23, 2018 Statement

UN Rights Review of Cameroon Comes at Critical Moment
July 19, 2018 Interview

Interview: Stoking Fires in Cameroon

Birgit Schwarz
Senior Press Officer
May 29, 2018 News Release

Cameroon: Armed Separatists Holding School Principal
February 27, 2018 News Release

Algeria: New Wave of Deportations
October 30, 2017 Commentary

End Cameroon’s Abuses of Refugees

Gerry Simpson
Associate Director, Refugee Rights Program

Published In: The Progressive
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’

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

World Report 2019

Cameroon

Daily Brief

January 17, 2019

HRW launches its 2019 World Report, with a positive message saying there are signs that autocratic rule is facing a powerful counterattack; uncertainty continues in Zimbabwe following violence which has left many people dead; the world's biggest jailer of journalists, Turkey, has just deported a foreign reporter; and what next for Kenya, as it takes stock following a shocking attack on a hotel?