Tag Archives: Country: Cameroon

LifeSiteNews: “Government officials and citizen organizations in the African nation of Cameroon are denouncing a decision by the European Union to send over 300,000 euros to three local organizations that work against the nation’s anti-sodomy laws.”

Radio Netherlands Worldwide: “Raul Mateus, Head of the Delegation of the European Union in Cameroon, was convened on January 13 by the Minister of External Relations, Henri Eyebe Ayissi. The diplomat was asked to explain the funding behind the Projet d’assistance et d’encadrement des minorités sexuelles (Paemh) (Project for assistance and guidance to sexual minorities), amounting to 300,000 euros. One of the project goals is to provide legal and material assistance to people detained for being homosexual.”

BBC: “Cameroon’s government has rejected the claim by a gay asylum seeker in the UK that he would face persecution if he returned home. … ‘Homosexuality is forbidden by the law, there is not doubt. But what I can emphasise is the fact that no homosexual is persecuted in Cameroon,’ Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma said.” | “Gay asylum seekers win UK appeal”

“To compel a homosexual person to pretend that his sexuality does not exist or suppress the behaviour by which to manifest itself is to deny him the fundamental right to be who he is.”

LifeSiteNews reports: “Over 20,000 people gathered in the southern Cameroon city of Douala last Saturday to stage a peaceful protest march against the country’s ratification of the Maputo Protocol, which led to the legalization of abortion throughout much of Africa ‘in cases of rape, incest or when the pregnancy is determined to put the mother’s physical or psychological health in danger.’”

LifeSiteNews.com: “The committee that monitors state compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) will begin a new session in Geneva next week, but even prior to the meeting six of the eight …