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• Document type World Coalition
• Available languages Statuts de la Coalition mondiale contre la peine de mort

Facts and figures from several human rights organizations on death sentences and executions in 2019, as well progress towards the abolition of capital punishment worldwide.

• Document type World Coalition
• Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages Faits et chiffres - Journée mondiale 2020

Following the botched execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma on 29 April, the United Nations called on the United States to suspend executions in the face of potential international law violations. The World Coalition supports this call.

• Document type World Coalition
• Themes list International law, Moratorium , Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Transparency, Lethal Injection,
• Available languages Déclaration concernant les exécutions aux USA

This report addresses Cameroon’s compliance with human rights obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, particularly with respect to the imposition of the death penalty against Anglophone Cameroonians.

By way of background, the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon began in 2016 as peaceful protests by lawyers and teachers demanding linguistic reforms but rapidly escalated into a war of secession that has killed thousands of people and displaced over one million.

The Cameroonian Criminal Code adopted in 2016 allows for the death penalty, including for vaguely defined terrorism-related offences. In this regard, the Anti-Terrorism Law of 2014 has been used to prosecute Anglophone human rights activists before military courts for acts of terrorism, secession, rebellion, and spreading false news, with the death penalty as a potential sentence in such cases.

While Cameroon ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 1984, it has yet to ratify its Second Optional Protocol aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ICCPR-OP2). Although no execution has taken place in Cameroon since 1997, civil society organizations estimate that 220 people currently are under sentence of death in Cameroon.

As discussed below, Cameroon fails to uphold its obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination because its domestic law and institutional and political framework do not sufficiently protect Anglophones facing the death penalty.

• Document type NGO report / World Coalition
• Countries list Cameroon

Facts and figures from Amnesty International’s 2019 report on death sentences and executions in 2018

• Document type World Coalition
• Themes list Juveniles, Methods of Execution, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Statistics,
• Available languages Faits et chiffres 2019

Up-to-date information on the application of death penalty around the world in 2017 and 2018.

• Document type World Coalition
• Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,
• Available languages Datos y Cifras 2018Faits Et Chiffres 2018

Up-to-date information on the application of death penalty around the world in 2016 and 2017.

• Document type World Coalition
• Themes list Statistics,
• Available languages Faits Et Chiffres 2017

Up-to-date information on the application of death penalty around the world in 2015 and 2016.

• Document type World Coalition
• Themes list Statistics,
• Available languages Faits Et Chiffres 2016Datos y Cifras 2016

Up-to-date information on the application of death penalty around the world in 2014 and 2015

• Document type World Coalition
• Themes list Drug Offences, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages HECHOS Y DATOS 13° Día Mundial contra la pena de muerteFaits Et Chiffres 2015

Up-to-date information on the application of death penalty around the world in 2013 and 2014

• Document type World Coalition
• Themes list Death Penalty, Statistics,
• Available languages Faits et chiffres 2014Hechos y datos 2014