Cameroon Urged to Probe Murder of Gay Rights Activist
Human Rights Watch is urging the Cameroonian authorities to launch an "effective and thorough" investigation into the torture and killing of an outspoken activist who defended the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people.
It is hard to be openly gay in Cameroon.
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Cameroon:
Spate of Attacks On Rights Defenders - Authorities Should Investigate, Condemn, Prosecute Assaults
HRW, 1 July 2013
The Cameroonian government should rigorously investigate, denounce, and prosecute suspicious break-ins at three human rights defenders' offices in June, six Cameroonian and… Read more »
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Cameroon:
Prosecution of Transgender Youth Based On Bias, Not Evidence
HRW, 17 May 2013
The Cameroonian authorities should drop the charges against two transgender youth rather than appealing their case to the Supreme Court, four human rights organizations said today. Read more »
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Cameroon:
Govt Called on To Stop 'Targeting' Homosexuals
HRW, 18 April 2013
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Cameroon:
Waiting for Minds to Change in Cameroon
HRW, 9 April 2013
"There's no reason to despair," Cameroonian president Paul Biya told journalists in January 2013. They had questioned him, at a Paris news conference, on Cameroon's startling level… Read more »
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Cameroon:
Rights Abuses in 'homosexuality' Prosecutions - Record Arrests for Same-Sex Intimacy - Rule of Law Violations
HRW, 21 March 2013
Cameroon prosecutes people for consensual same-sex conduct more aggressively than almost any country in the world, four human rights organizations said in a report released today.… Read more »
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Cameroon:
Stop Turning Blind Eye to Death Threats - Intimidation of Lawyers in 'Homosexuality' Cases Compromises Right to Defense
HRW, 12 February 2013
The government of Cameroon should immediately take action against a series of death threats made over the last four months to two lawyers who represent clients accused of… Read more »
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Cameroon:
Cameroonians 'Changing Their Minds' About Gay People - President Biya
All Out, 30 January 2013
Cameroon's President Paul Biya said on Wednesday, January 30 in Paris that 'minds in the country are evolving' on the subject of gay people. Read more »
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Cameroon:
Men Who 'Looked Gay' Acquitted
AI London, 8 January 2013
The acquittal of two Cameroonian men jailed for "looking gay" because they wore women's clothes exposes the systematic discrimination against perceived homosexuals in the country,… Read more »
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Cameroon:
Same Sex Marriages Are Crimes Against Humanity, Says Archbishop Bakot
CISA, 4 January 2013
One of Cameroon's most senior Christian leaders called same-sex marriages a "crime against humanity", ramping up anti-gay rhetoric in the Central African state. Read more »
InFocus
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An appeals court has acquitted two men who were jailed for "looking gay" because they wore women's clothes. They are among numerous people who have faced persecution in the country ... Read more »
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The High Court in London has granted an injunction suspending the deportation of a Cameroonian gay man who says he will be persecuted if he is sent back home. Thirteen people have ... Read more »
