( 25 May 2021 ) We, the undersigned international human rights organisations, call on the Cambodian government to immediately stop its assault on freedom…
Joint news release
Geneva / Buea, May 25th, 2021 – The Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CHRDA) and the SOS-Torture litigators group in Africa are filing a complaint to the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) against Cameroon for acts of torture perpetrated by the security forces. The victim is an English-speaking Cameroonian citizen, wrongly accused of complicity with separatist armed groups.
On the 30th of January 2019, at about 8:30 p.m, a Cameroonian citizen and businessman is abducted from his home in Buea. Jack (not his real name) is from the English-speaking southwest of Cameroon and has no political or military affiliation. He is accused of buying arms from the United States and supplying them to separatist armed groups who fight for the independence of the two English-speaking regions of the country.
Paris-Geneva, 25 May 2021
Excellencies,
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), urges UN Member States to
urgently step up their action to ensure global counter-terrorism policies do not negatively impact civil society and human rights defenders.
Although human rights were given a central place in the UN Global Counter-Terrorist Strategy (GCTS), human rights organisations have extensively documented the minimisation and under-funding of human rights aspects of the strategy[1]. In addition, civil society and human rights defenders have remained sidelined
in an overwhelming majority of processes within the UN Counter-Terrorist Architecture[2]. This situation has led to