05/09/2025
There is rising violence against LGBTQ+community because Cameroon Penal Code Article, 347-1, criminalizes homosexuality. Homosexuals are assaulted, threatened, arrested, detained, humiliated while their attackers go free. Indigenous women/girls most of whom live in remote areas; experience discrimination/violence because of patriarchal believes but rarely report due to fear/ignorance. A majority are school drop outs/FGM survivors/child brides/forcefully married and are lacking in leadership positions as there is strong male preference within indigenous communities. IDP women and girls experience discrimination, violence and or are at risk of violence within host communities and most of them cannot recognize violence neither do they know support services available for help.
It is within this context that FIDA Cameroon with support from African Women’s Development Fund is organizing a one-day seminar to train Customary Court Judges, Civil Status Registrars, Indigenous Women, Civil Society Leaders and Traditional Leaders in the Littoral Region of Cameroon on Women’s Rights.which took place on the 29 of August 2025 .The overall goal of this project is to create an environment where women in all their diversities will enjoy their rights. The project will address issues of violence against women and girls.
The main impact area is to dismantle patriarchy, improve attitudes and policy, improve institutional response to VAWGs, create a country where Women/girls in all their diversities enjoy equal rights and opportunities and live a life free from violence. We expect that the beneficiaries will ;
1. Be able to protect women’s and girls’ rights not to be violated.
2. Increasingly commit to prevent and end violence against women and girls
3. Hold perpetrators accountable for any act of gender-based violenc
