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Cameroon: Human Rights Commission To Strengthen Protection Actions
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Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé)
4 April 2008
Posted to the web 4 April 2008
Emmanuel Kendemeh
The National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms has taken resolutions to better promote and protect human rights.
The fifth ordinary session of Cameroon's National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms held Wednesday in Yaoundé at the end of which major resolutions and recommendations were taken to enhance the human rights situation in the country.
The Chairman of the Commission, Dr Divine Chemuta Banda presided over the deliberations. Members of the Commission resolved to double visibility and effectiveness of actions towards better protecting human rights and freedoms by integrating their professional experiences in diverse domains. Henceforth, the Commission will double efforts to seek for appropriate means necessary to enable it better carry out its missions. The Human Rights Commission members called on the government to inscribe the payment of subventions to the Commission as one of the priority expenses of the State. Pertinent decisions were equally taken on the remuneration of the Commission's workers.
The sixth ordinary session of the National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms, will take place on Wednesday, 24 September 2008. It will be during the session that the recommendations of the fifth session will be evaluated. Henceforth, working documents will have to be transmitted to members and regional secretariats with little delay. The Commission's authorities also have to accelerate the drawing up of the status of its personnel and internal rules governing them to be adopted during the September 2008 session. While reflecting on the Commission's 2009 budget, the authorities will have to include the sub-heads for investment and functioning.
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Members of the public and the Commission members who attended the opening ceremony of the fifth ordinary session, still have fresh in their minds, the declarations of Dr Banda concerning the ongoing debate on whether or not to revise Cameroon's constitution. He said, "The amendment of the constitution is a normal exercise. In general terms, I think that the current debate on the constitutional amendment in Cameroon ought to have been focused on its programming and on content". Concerning the Article 6 paragraph 2 of the Constitution on the mandate of the President of the Republic, the Commission's Chairman said, "I am of the opinion that the systems of limiting or not of the terms of office of the Heads of State or governments, is a double option in the same democratic game . It is the right of the people to freely choose the option they want".
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