UN Rights Review of Cameroon Comes at Critical Moment

HRW welcomes Cameroon’s UPR adoption, which comes at a timely moment for the country. Earlier this year, HRW documented numerous human rights violations committed by both armed separatists and government forces since a pro-independence movement began to grow in the country’s Anglophone region in late 2016. In 2016 and 2017, government security forces used excessive force to break up at least five demonstrations organized by members of the country’s Anglophone minority, located primarily in the South West and North West regions of the country, who were calling for the region’s independence. Security…

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