HRC47: Multilateral action is needed to address the human rights crisis in Cameroon
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Excellencies,
We, the undersigned civil society organisations, are deeply concerned over ongoing grave human rights violations and abuses in Cameroon. Ahead of the Human Rights Council’s (“HRC” or “Council”) 47th session (21 June-15 July 2021), we urge your delegation to support multilateral action to address Cameroon’s human rights crisis in the form of a joint statement to the Council. This statement should include benchmarks for progress, which, if fulfilled, will constitute a path for Cameroon to improve its situation. If these benchmarks remain unfulfilled, then the joint statement will pave the way for more formal Council action, including, but not limited to, a resolution establishing an investigative and accountability mechanism.
A coalition of Aboriginal organisations are building momentum for their initiative that advocates for victims of preventable deaths within the health and justice system.
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Professor Ayodele Atsenuwa of the Department of Public Law, is the new Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Development Services) of the University of Lagos.
At the Statutory Meeting of Senate held on Monday, March 29, 2021, she was elected via an electronic voting process with 81 votes (63.28%).
Professor Ayodele Atsenuwa is a Professor of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos. Her teaching and research interests are wide and traverse Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Human Rights Law, Gender and the Law, Law and Religion, as well as Health and Migration Law.
Within the legal academia, she is widely respected for her initiatives aimed at bridging the gap between legal academics and legal practice, and is acknowledged for her efforts at evolving more development-oriented law degree programmes in terms of content and teaching methodologies.
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Mrs Ayodele Atsenuwa, a Professor of Public Law at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka has been appointed Vice-Chancellor (Development Services).
Atsenuwa until her new role was the Dean of Faculty of Law of the university.
She succeeded Prof Folasade Ogunsola whose tenure in that capacity ended early March. Prof Ogunsola is the acting vice-chancellor of UNILAG during the face-off between the then led Dr Wale Babalakin’s governing council of the university and the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe.
Prof Atsenuwa, however, was elected into her new office via an electronic voting process with 81 votes (63.28%) against her rivals at the Statutory Meeting of the university’s Senate held on Monday, March 29.