In view of gaining efficiency and greater impact in our work, Civitas is signing partnership agreements with non-human rights players in Cameroon public and private sector. These agreements will help us better evaluate human rights situations and intervention needs from …

Some national and international human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International wrote an open letter to the President of Cameroon, His Excellency Paul Biya, expressing “serious concern” about the use of criminal laws to punish consenting adults …

The Human Rights Committee, a body of independent experts that monitors the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), unanimously decided that the government of Cameroon, in its treatment of Ebenezer Derek Mbongo Akwanga between 1997 …

The right to education is a basic human right laid down in key human rights covenants ratified by the government of Cameroon. Although the government has made some efforts to make education available and accessible, thousands of children in Cameroon …

Civitas is appalled by the arbitrary arrest and brutalization of a man by police officers in Bamenda, in violation of the Criminal Procedure Code of Law No. 2005/007 of 27 July 2005 and international human rights standards. On 25 August …