Debating Challenges for Minority Rights – Presentation at a Web Seminar Series with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues, 9 July 2020
At the invitation of the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues, we participated in the above Web-based seminar series. Our presentation focused on some key improvements international organizations and entities need to make as they engage countries faced with minority issues – and we spoke from the experience of Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis.
Legislative Whitepaper Submission - Special Status for Cameroon's NW, SW Regions
As Cameroon’s Parliament convenes this month for its last ordinary session for the year 2019, one of the key expectations that several constituencies around the country have for the session, is whether and how it will advance the recommendations from the recently convened National Dialogue on the Anglophone crisis. One of the key recommendations from the said Dialogue, was for the enactment of a regional Special Status for the affected Northwest and Southwest regions, which takes into account their historical specificities.
Observations, Bill on the Promotion of Official Languages in Cameroon - 04 December 2019
We are pleased to present some observations on the Bill on the Promotion of Official Languages in Cameroon, tabled before Parliament. In these observations, we raise a number of challenges with and potentially problematic provisions of, the said Bill. These include: (i) its failure to take into account the existing patterns of use of Cameroon’s two official languages across its regions and agglomerations, (ii) how the Bill interfaces with the potential Special Status dispensation for the Northwest and Southwest Regions...
Majoritarianism and Regional Approval of Special Status for NW, SW
On Friday 20 December 2019, Cameroon’s Senate adopted the Bill to Institute a General Code of Regional and Local Authorities. The said Bill contains provisions pertaining to a Special Status for the Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon. In the attached note, we do not yet make substantive comments on the actual content of the Special Status provisions – we shall do so early in 2020.
What do Special Status Regions Mean - A Layperson's Guide
We are pleased to share with you a document entitled: “What is the Meaning of Special Status Regions”? At a time when this issue is topical in Cameroon, we thought to provide some explanations, using comparative good examples from multiple countries around the world that have Special Status regions. This document is presented in the format of Frequently Asked Questions and Answers and is destined for the Media and General Public.
