Cameroon
The GALE Right to Education Monitor still has to be done in Cameroon.
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Score on the GALE Checklist
| Item | Forbidden | Discouraged | No policy | Encouraged | Supported | No data | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Full access to schools? | x | Homosexuality is a criminal offense in Cameroon, and DESPOGI (or LGBT) are subject to severe discriminations. | |||||
| 2. Freedom of self expression? | x | Although young people are arrested and imprisoned for their sexual orientation, and we find it hard to defend them. | |||||
| 3. Protection against bullying? | x | no comments | |||||
| 4. No drop-out? | x | In our department, no support structure or accompanying DESPOGI. | |||||
| 5. Equal performance? | x | no comments | |||||
| 6. Is there public information? | x | The first difficulty is to communicate on the subject. You must not lose that homosexuality is a crime in the country. In our association, we bypassed the problem somewhat by addressing the issue of stigmatization of DESPOGI field of fight against AIDS. | |||||
| 7. Attention in school resources? | x | no attention to DESPOGI. | |||||
| 8. Resources for LGBT students? | x | No specific resources for DESPOGI. | |||||
| 9. Support services open to LGBT? | x | No support services for DESPOGI, except some associations like ours. | |||||
| 10. Peer-learning opportunities? | x | Only associations like ours for such emancipation, and we have developed projects in this direction. | |||||
| 11. Is staff supportive? | x | We are currently working on an education project in the sense in schools and colleges. | |||||
| 12. Is staff competent to teach? | x | no comments | |||||
| 13. Is staff competent to support? | x | We project that outreach and teacher training that we hope to implement in the month of March. | |||||
| 14. Supportive school environment? | x | no comments | |||||
| 15. Employment protection for staff? | x | no comments |
The score is 100% forbidden (denying), 0% discouraged or no policy (ambiguous), 0% encouraged or supportive (supportive). We score this country therefore as denying.
This report is based on one respondent, who based the results on the Cameroon report on education 2012.
Relevant Conventions
| Convention against Discrimination in Education | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
| Convention on Technical and Vocational Education | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
| International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
| Convention on the Rights of the Child | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
| Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
Links to interesting articles
- Submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Cameroon at the Human Rights Council (November 2012)
- Au Cameroun, les homos ne se cachent plus (Article on www.slateafrique.com, May 2011)
- The Global Gay Rights Battlefields (Article on rising anti-gay hysteria in Cameroon while lawyers are challenging anti-gay laws in the courts, by Max Strasser in foreignpolicy.com, December 2010).
- Same-Sex Relations Bring Attacks, Arrests (Yaoundé, November 2010, article on criminalization of same-sex activities).
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This page was last updated on 23 November 2012.