Request for Consideration of the implications for the Indigenous Forest Peoples of Cameroon from the imminent adoption of a racially discriminatory new Forest Law, under the UN CERD's Urgent Action and Early Warning Procedures
The purpose of this request is to bring to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD)'s attention the imminent enactment of a new Forest Law in Cameroon. The submitting organisations (Okani, CED and Forest Peoples Programme) highlight that both the process of reform and the contents of the proposed new law are racially discriminatory towards indigenous peoples.
Read the full request to UN CERD in English or in French.
Click here to read UN CERD's formal communication to the Permanent Mission of Cameroon regarding the Forest Law (in French only).
Overview
- Resource Type:
- Reports
- Publication date:
- 20 January 2013
- Region:
- Cameroon
- Programmes:
- Access to Justice Legal Empowerment
- Partners:
- Centre pour l’Environnement et le Développement (CED) Association OKANI
- Translations:
- French: Demande d’examen des implications de l’adoption imminente d’une nouvelle loi forestière racialement discriminatoire pour les peuples autochtones tributaires de la forêt du Cameroun au titre des procédures d’alerte rapide et d’intervention d’urgence et des