Activists in Cameroon are urging more women candidates to enter races for Senate seats before a January 28 deadline. Only 26 members of Cameroon's 100-member senate are women, a number advocates want to see doubled. But patriarchal beliefs and a lack of political support are preventing more women from contesting the March election. Female activists…
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Maroua, Cameroon - Activists in Cameroon are urging more women candidates to enter races for Senate seats before a January 28 deadline. Only 26 members
Ahead of World Human Rights Day this Saturday (12/10), Cameroonian rights groups are protesting what they call dehumanizing treatment of women and children displaced by the separatist crisis in two western provinces. The rights groups say displaced women and girls are forced into physical and sexual abuse and domestic work without pay. These are the…