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Press briefing notes on Cameroon

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27 Oct 2020

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani Location: Geneva Date: 27 October 2020 The population continues to pay a heavy price in the ongoing crisis in the North...

Cameroon: UN human rights experts call for end to detention and intimidation of peaceful protesters

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12 Oct 2020

GENEVA (12 October 2020) – UN human rights experts* today demanded that Cameroon release the main opposition leader and others arrested during country-wide peaceful demonstrations, and stop...

Cameroon must protect human rights defenders – UN experts

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28 Apr 2020

Chinese | French GENEVA (28 April 2020) – Cameroon needs to put an end to escalating intimidation and aggression towards human rights defenders to ensure they can continue their work and NGOs operate...

Cameroon killings: Bachelet urges full accountability

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22 Apr 2020

French | Spanish GENEVA (22 April 2020) - Cameroon’s decision to publicly acknowledge that members of the military were involved in the killing of at least 13 people in a village in the North-West...

Press briefing note on Cameroon

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18 Feb 2020

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 18 February 2020 Subject: 1) Cameroon Cameroon The attack on 14 February on a village in Cameroon...

Cameroon crisis: preventing the speech that incites violence

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28 Jan 2020

Ahead of next month’s elections in Cameroon, UN Human Rights works with the media, civil society and national institutions to find solutions to prevent speech that incites hatred and exacerbates violence in that country.

Bachelet welcomes release of hundreds of political actors in Cameroon

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08 Oct 2019

French GENEVA (8 October 2019) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday welcomed the release of hundreds of political actors in Cameroon, among them opposition leader...

Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances concludes its 119th session

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20 Sep 2019

Geneva, 20 September 2019 The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) concluded its 119th session, held between 16 and 20 September 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland...

Committee Against Torture considers follow-up to concluding observations, individual communications and reprisals

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06 Aug 2019

6 August 2019 - The Committee against Torture this afternoon discussed follow-up to concluding observations, individual communications, and reprisals under the Convention against Torture and other...

Human Rights Council holds panel discussion on the rights of older women and their economic empowerment

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28 Jun 2019

MORNING Hears Statements from Dignitaries from Cameroon, Austria and Azerbaijan GENEVA (28 June 2019) - The Human Rights Council this morning held the second part of its annual discussion on the human...