AFRICAphonie Trains Organisations on Monitoring, Documenting and Reporting Human Rights Violations

Violations of human rights are major challenges confronting the Cameroonian nation. These violations come in many forms including torture, domestic violence, arbitrary arrest and detention, sexual assault, land theft, girl trafficking, adultery, arson, extra-judicial killings, female genital mutilation, breast ironing among others. An increase in violent conflict and the instability that it creates is often linked to an increase in violations of human rights.
Presently Cameroon faces a number of destabilizing factors including the Boko Haram crisis in the North region, refugee influx in the East region from Central African Republic, but most especially the protracted insurgency in the North West and South West regions. But beyond this big picture of the political human rights situation in the two regions lie an avalanche of socio-economic and cultural violations that sometimes does not have much attention and visibility.