Hate Unleashed in Cameroon

Publisher:
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
Publication Date:
14 August 2014
Tags:
Cameroon, Human Rights, Legal and Judicial Affairs

The West African country of Cameroon has many problems, reflected in its dismal social indicators. But it is the issue of homosexuality that seems to excite the most comment from government and church leaders. Homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon, as it is in 76 other countries around the world. But in Cameroon the police and courts seek to actively prosecute. Around a dozen people are jailed for homosexual offences each year. Even more disturbing is the homophobia that is being stoked in society, and the violence that hate can release. Hate Unleashed follows lawyer Alice Nkom as she seeks to challenge the prosecutions, and provide some care and support to those who have been incarcerated.

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