Cameroon: Human Rights

(asked on 20th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, what assessment they have made of the report by the UN Commission on Human Rights on Cameroon, published on 10 November, which called on the government of Cameroon to ensure equal treatment of the English-speaking minority, guaranteeing their rights for expression and assembly, and which stated that the English-speaking population in Cameroon is discriminated against in access to employment and political rights.


Answered by
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Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 4th December 2017

​The High Commissioner in Yaoundé has been following events in the Anglophone regions closely and has actively raised the need for dialogue and restraint with the Cameroonian authorities, including their obligations under international law in respect to human rights. We continue to call for restraint, for all parties to reject violence, pursue dialogue and urgently take action to reduce tensions.

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