Legislative Advocacy Brief : to criminalize grave crimes under international law
At a time when Cameroon’s crisis unfolding in the Northwest and Southwest regions has witnessed some of the most egregious acts of violence (such as deadly attacks against schools), we considered it important to bring to your attention, through the attached Advocacy Brief, that Cameroon’s criminal laws currently do not sanction the gravest international crimes linked to periods of armed violence or conflict, namely war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Some of the above-mentioned acts of violence could constitute these crimes, hence it is important that legislative action be taken, to include these crimes within Cameroon’s national criminal laws.
Cameroon - Education under Attack: An Urgent Policy Brief
Please find herewith an Urgent Policy Brief entitled "Cameroon: Education under Attack". This Brief provides an overview of recent attacks against schools and education in Cameroon's historically Anglophone Northwest and Southwest regions, including the grave incident of killing of students on 24 October 2020, for attending school. In order to assist policymakers working on this conflict to curb and halt this practice, the Brief provides enhanced contextual analysis on why attacks against schools and education have become for some combatants, central to prosecuting the conflict.
Proposals for a way out of the crisis in the Northwest and Southwest regions (Propositions des voies de sortie sur la situation dans les régions du Nord-Ouest et du Sud-Ouest)
In this opinion piece, published in the daily newspaper, Mutations, in the early months of the escalation of the Anglophone crisis, we set forth some proposals towards attenuating it, and preventing its further deterioration. These proposals included: de-escalating tensions through limiting the pursuit of criminal prosecutions against the protest leaders and leveraging this approach to urge a resumption of schools in the affected regions; identifying a broad base of institutions representing the interests of the said community and engaging in a structured continuous dialogue process with these constituencies, using external mediation or technical assistance as necessary; ...
