Since 2014, Cameroon has experienced an unprecedented security and social crisis, with the Islamist sect Boko Haram, incursions by Central African rebels and the so-called Anglophone crisis in the North-West and South-West regions.
Many human rights defenders and journalists have been caught in the middle of this crisis and have faced arrests, threats and media shut downs.
In a declaration, a group of civil society activities have called on the government to among other things ensure the protection and security of human rights defenders by adopting a law on “protection and security of defenders and journalists.”