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PRESS RELEASE - ARCHIVES 2009
“The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of
each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound
to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure” -
Albert Einstein
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Press Freedom in Danger in Cameroon: Government
Should Release Jean-Bosco Talla and other
Journalists in Cameroon Prisons Immediately
 (December 18, 2009) CCDHR strongly condemns the arbitrary arrest and detention
of Jean-Bosco Talla, Managing Editor of the
newspaper Germinal. Talla was secretly
arrested on December 10 and taken to the State
Secretariat for Defense.
Talla was transferred to the notorious
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Paul Biya’s 27 Years of Underdevelopment and
Dictatorship as President of Cameroon Is No Reason
for Celebration
 (November 06, 2009)
November 6, 2009 marks 27 years of Mr. Paul
Biya as the President of Cameroon.
Prior to becoming the President on
November 6 1982, Paul Biya served in various
positions under the regime of his predecessor,
President Ahmadou Ahidjo. In 1964, he was appointed
Director of the ...
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Index of African Governance: Bad Governance Hinders
Human Development and Sustainable Economic Growth in
Cameroon
 (October 08, 2009)
CCDHR is drawing the attention of the Government of
Cameroon to its unfortunate performance in the 2009 Ibrahim Index of African Governance published
October 5, 2009. The Ibrahim Index of Governance is
published by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, an
organization committed
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Peace Corps Volunteer Goes Online to Build 30
Bilingual Libraries in Cameroon
 (August 31, 2009)
Wendy Lee, a Peace Corps volunteer seeks $11,500 using the
Internet to bring Books for Cameroon to life.
Inspired by her experience as a Peace Corps
volunteer in Cameroon and after a needs assessment
of the various school conditions in Cameroon, Lee, a
native of Saint Louis,
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The National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms
of Cameroon: An Epitome of Government’s Contempt for
Human Rights
 (August 20, 2009)
CCDHR applauds the courage of Dr. Divine Banda, Chairperson
of the National Human Rights
Commission in informing the Cameroonian people about some of the
shortcomings of the institution he heads;
shortcomings which are mainly of the Government’s
making,
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Government Endorses Corruption by Arbitrarily
Sentencing Anti-Corruption and Civil Society
Activists in Cameroon
 (June 25, 2009)
CCDHR
is very concerned about the continued persecution, arbitrary arrests, kangaroo trials,
and imprisonment of anti-corruption activists and
civil society leaders by the Government of Cameroon.
Recent events in the country show that the Cameroon
Government is ...
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The Government of Cameroon Must Release Detained
SCNC Members Immediately
 (March 27, 2009)
CCDHR is calling on the Government of Cameroon to
immediately and unconditionally release Ngewih
Asunkwan, Philemon Ndamukong Mungu, Fondoh Cletus
Che, Ndifon Stephen, Yuyari Issa, Ali Oscar, and
Priscillia Khan. All seven individuals are officials
of the
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ELECAM or ELEC-CPDM: The Death of Democracy in
Cameroon with the Acquiescence of the Commonwealth
of Nations
 (February
02, 2009)
On January 29, 2009, the 12 members of Elections
Cameroon (ELECAM) were sworn in at the Supreme Court
in Yaounde on the promise that they will work to
organize transparent, free, and fair elections in
Cameroon, a promise hard to believe considering the
incongruity of ... MORE |
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Petition to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI on his Visit to Cameroon
(January 15, 2009)
On October 26, 2008, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
made public his intention to visit Cameroon in March 2009. For an
international figure, and a religious denomination root in the respect
for the inherent dignity of every human being, the choice of country and
the decision of His ... MORE |
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PICAM’s Reaction to President Paul Biya’s 2008
End of Year Address to the Nation
(January 5, 2009)
On December 31,
2008, President Paul Biya audaciously gave one of his regular annual
self-acclamations, one that states progress on all fronts on his policy
initiatives despite the continued worsening of the country’s situation
and the plight of its people. At the outset, Paul
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