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Sudan: Renewed clashes in Darfur
Related to country: Sudan

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29 January 2009 – The United Nations and African Union (AU) joint chief mediator for the peace process in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region today expressed grave concern over renewed combat in the southern part of the vast region, saying it undermines hopes for a peaceful settlement of the conflict.

“The escalation of violence violates the spirit of the Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement on the Conflict in Darfur of 2004 and constitutes a breach of various Security Council resolutions,” Djibril Bassolé said in a formal statement released in Khartoum.

Pointing in particular to military clashes involving the Government of Sudan, the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), and another rebel group known as the Sudan Liberation Army/ Minni Minawi (SLA/MM), he called on the parties to cease fighting to minimize civilian suffering and create “a conducive environment for a political dialogue.”

The conflict between rebels and the Government and allied Janjaweed militiamen in Darfur has led to an estimated 300,000 deaths since 2003 and forced 2.7 million people to flee their homes.

Renewed fighting in southern Darfur's Muhajeria area that began earlier this month has exposed about 30,000 people to previously unseen levels of violence, destroyed an aid agency's office and forced the world body to relocate its staff.

Condemning the renewed attacks, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on all parties in Darfur to commit to an immediate and unconditional cessation of hostilities and to intensify efforts to come to a comprehensive political agreement with the assistance of Mr. Bassolé.

UN News Centre

January 30, 2009 | 5:45 PM Comments  0 comments

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Human rights violations go unpunished in Chad
Related to country: Chad

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Amnesty International Press release
30 January 2009

One year after the battle between government and armed opposition forces in N’Djaména, Chad, serious human rights violations perpetrated by the security forces are continuing with no one being held accountable.

"A year after the conflict, members of the security forces who carried out a regime of murder, torture and enforced disappearance of suspected government opponents have not been brought to justice, fuelling an already pervasive problem of impunity," said Tawanda Hondora, Amnesty International’s Africa Deputy Programme Director.

Many people who were forcibly disappeared during the conflict have still not been found, while others continue to go missing. On 3 September 2008, Issa Palkoubou, an English teacher at the American Language Centre in N'Djaména, was abducted from the centre by three men in plain clothes and forced into a car. He hasn’t been seen or heard from since. The whereabouts of Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh, a leading opposition politician who was one of many arrested last February, also remains unknown.

"Enforced disappearance appears to be a method used by Chadian security forces to spread fear among the population and intimidate perceived or real political opponents," said Tawanda Hondora. "Scores of people arrested by the security forces simply disappeared. Their whereabouts remain unknown.

"The Chadian government must disclose the whereabouts of those who have disappeared. They must also initiate criminal proceedings against members of their security forces and others who may have committed human rights violations," said Tawanda Hondora.

Amnesty International has called on the Chadian government to initiate criminal investigations into allegations of human rights abuses -- including war crimes and crimes against humanity – and to bring those responsible to justice.

The Battle of N’Djaména

On 2 and 3 February 2008, armed opposition groups mounted an offensive in the heavily populated areas of the capital city of Chad, N’Djaména. Government forces responded by bombing areas in N’Djaména where they believed the opposition forces were attacking from. Hundreds of civilians were killed or injured and more than 50,000 fled the capital to seek refuge in neighbouring Cameroon. The government of Chad regained control of N’Djaména and opposition forces retreated to Sudan.

Late in the afternoon of 3 February, the security forces entered the homes of several leaders of the unarmed opposition. They arrested the former Chadian president, Lol Mahamat Choa, Member of Parliament, Ngalegy Yorongar and the leader of the Party for Freedom and Devlopment, Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh. Lol Mahamat Choa was placed in detention for 25 days before being released, Ngalegy Yorongar was detained for 19 days and Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh disappeared and has not been heard of since.

On 15 March 2009, MINURCAT, a multi-dimensional UN Mission in Chad, will take over from EUFOR, the European Union-led military force. According to its new mandate, the UN mission will "contribute to the monitoring and to the promotion and protection of human rights in Chad, with particular attention to sexual and gender-based violence, and to recommend action to the competent authorities, with a view to fighting impunity".

source: HREA - www.hrea.org

January 30, 2009 | 9:36 AM Comments  0 comments

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Cameroon's government have routinely used killings and torture to repress political dissent, according to a new Amnesty International report.
Related to country: Cameroon

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Amnesty International Press release
29 January 2009

Cameroon's government have routinely used killings and torture to repress political dissent, according to a new Amnesty International report.

During a 10-year spell of gross human rights violations, Cameroonian security forces have habitually used excessive and unnecessary force – and the perpetrators have almost always enjoyed impunity.

“Political opposition is not tolerated in Cameroon,” said Tawanda Hondora, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Africa. “Any dissent is suppressed through either violence or abuse of the legal system to silence critics.”

In late February 2008, security forces killed as many as 100 civilians during demonstrations against the escalating cost of living. Amnesty International has received photographs and testimonies suggesting that some of the victims were shot at point blank range, without any effort made to arrest them.

“Unfair trials, intimidation and harassment, including death threats, are routinely used by the authorities to quash criticism from politicians, human rights defenders and journalists,” said Tawanda Hondora.

“The silencing of the media is particularly worrying. If a journalist is deemed too critical of the government they are silenced -- and radio and TV stations are shut down.”

Journalist Michel Mombio was arrested in September 2008 and spent 10 days in custody. He was then transferred to the central prison in the capital, Yaoundé, and charged with fraud and blackmail. He was still in custody without trial in January 2009.

Journalists covering street protests in February 2008 were assaulted by members of the security forces. The victims included a cameraman from Canal 2 International television, who was beaten and arrested and then had his camera destroyed. He was only freed after soldiers forced him to pay them.

The report, Cameroon: Impunity underpins persistent abuse, also exposes the appalling prison conditions in Cameroon. Jails suffer from inadequate food and medical care, as well as overcrowding.

Minors are often held together with adults and there is inadequate separation of males from females, which has led to sexual and other forms of violence and exploitation. Prisons are reported to be infested with rats and cockroaches and some inmates have resorted to sleeping in the toilets for lack of a place to rest.

source: HREA - www.hrea.org

January 30, 2009 | 9:21 AM Comments  0 comments

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Trafic d'enfants au Cameroun
Related to country: Cameroon

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Traffic of children in Cameroun
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This text right to enable you to read this article raising the existence of the phenomenon of traffic of the children in Cameroun and in the close countries, Cameroun apart from being a country provider of children, is also useful like country of transit for nearby countries, for removed children of other countries.
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Kribi: 54 passengers of a boat escape dead
Écrit by Joseph ABENA ABENA
Heavy suspicions of traffic of children weigh on the crew.

“The state of this dugout gives shivers”. It is in these terms that the public prosecutor close the courts of Kribi qualified the boat which failed broad yesterday morning of Kribi. It was at a working session that the prefect of the Ocean chaired following the accident.
The artisanal boat failed the beach of Londji, to approximately 10 km of the town of Kribi. The cries of distress were spread in the small village. “We started to fight against death in open sea, because certain boards had already yielded, and water entered of any share”, testifies a Cameronian member to the crew.
The boat left Benign and made stopover in Nigeria, before continuing the voyage last Saturday with like final destination Gabon. It had on board 54 people including 24 Beninese, 11 Nigerians, 10 Ghanaians, 7 Burkinabes, 1 Malians, and 1 Cameronian. One could count 16 girls from 7 to 20 years and 2 little boys of 3 and 5 years. According to local authorities', On the 54 passengers, 51 does not have parts of identification.
The prefect of the Ocean, accompanied by, under prefect of Kribi and of the gripping force public prosecutor of the order is descended on the spot from the accident. The 54 victims were put in the integrated center of health of Londji, where they received a medical examination revealing a satisfying health.
However, several observers are unanimous on the assumption of a traffic of the children. They were 18 in the boat. “It is about a case of traffic of children with the network which leaves Benign, crosses the hinged plate of Nigeria with for point of fall Gabon”, thinks the departmental delegate of the social Affairs of the Ocean, Bernard Dieudonné Ngué. In the urgency, it distributed bread, water and sardines with the survivors. Two years before, a shipwreck had taken place on the same beach making 275 dead.
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We think that many things remain to be made as well on the level of the government as on the level of the organizations of fight against the traffic of the children to make move back the plague.
We call some with the supports of the ones and others to make stop the phenomenon in our areas.

July 8, 2008 | 5:55 PM Comments  0 comments

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Le travail et le trafic des enfants au Cameroun.
Related to country: Cameroon

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Child work and traffic in Cameroun.
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On June 12, 2008, celebrates the 7th edition of the World Day against the Child Work.
In recall, the articles 1st of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (http://www.unicef.org/voy/french/explore/rights/explore_157.html) and 2 of Convention N° 182 (http://www.tripalium.com/bienvenue/legislation/OIT-ENFANTS1.htm) of ILO concerning the prohibition of the worst shapes of work children and the action immediate for their elimination define the child as any 18 old human year be less. Being regarded as more vulnerable than any other group of ages, the children are particularly exposed with the exploitation and violence. Thus they are the subject of traffic at ends of exploitations of their work. One uses them at ends of prostitutions, sale of drug, servants, man? uvres, workmen, waiter of bar, etc… This sad truth comparable to slavery, is worsened by the combined effects of the economic crisis, the weakening of the family bonds and the distress which not only throw the children in the street, but push the parents entrusted their children to relations who are in the shade of the intermediaries for networks of traffickers of children at ends of exploitations of their work and others.
In Cameroun, the phenomenon exists indeed, and one found there at one time two types of traffic: internal traffic and transborder traffic. A law was voted in Cameroun by the French National Assembly to fight against this plague which reduces the human being in a thing.
Our combat, it is to give to the young people tools which will make it possible to help to stop this plague. Then let us fight against the traffic and the work the children for a company righter and who grant to all his/her children the same chances.

Here some bonds towards articles treating of the phenomenon with Cameroun.
http://www.cameroon-info.net/cmi_show_news.php?id=5922
http://ipsnews.net/fr/_note.asp?idnews=3179
http://www.rfi.fr/actufr/articles/068/article_37996.asp


June 9, 2008 | 5:16 AM Comments  0 comments

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