Cameroon: Failed Promise to Reduce Gender-Based Violence

Discriminatory Laws, Underinvestment in Public Services Enable Abuse

• Women and girls in Cameroon face persistent domestic violence and gender discrimination without meaningful protection or access to justice.
• Entrenched systemic gender inequality, discriminatory laws, and weak institutions, exacerbated by chronic underinvestment in prevention and survivor support, fuels the violence.
• The government needs to urgently reform discriminatory family laws, update and adopt the long-delayed Family Code,…