Cameroon: Using Protective Orders to Prevent Gender-Based Violence in Cameroon

The Prevalence of Violence Against Women and Urgency of Protective Orders

This policy brief aims to inform legislative reform to end the legislative gap in Cameroon’s current legal framework with respect to victim protection in domestic violence cases, particularly regarding the need to adopt statutory provisions enabling courts to issue civil protective orders. The policy brief draws on comparative African legal models and Cameroon’s international treaty obligations to protect women’s and girls’…