Cameroon

Resources

Ray Wung

Published: 7 Oct 2016

Ray Wung is a Cameroonian, also a lawyer with specialized knowledge in international human rights and refugee law. He had diverse exposure to refugee issues in Egypt and has contributed to preparing cases for Cameroonians seeking asylum in the US. With broad knowledge of, and exposure to the legal and socio-political landscape in Cameroon, Ray…

Dr Charlotte Walker-Said

Published: 7 Oct 2016

Dr Charlotte Walker-Said is a historian of modern Africa and Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY). She has taught history, African studies, and human rights at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and Webster University. She has traveled and worked in Douala and…

Justice Mukete Tahle Itoe

Published: 7 Oct 2016

President, High Court, Ndian Justice Itoe will review and authenticate documents pro bono for lawyers requiring this service on behalf of persons seeking asylum outside this country.

Prof Philip C. Burnham

Published: 7 Oct 2016

Prof. Burnham is an anthropologist with extensive research experience in West and Central Africa, returning regularly to the region. He has undertaken extensive fieldwork for over forty years on various ethnographic themes including: economic and social change, kinship structures, inter‑ethnic relations, and the political structures of the Gbaya and Fulani peoples of Cameroon and the…

Dr Nicholas Argenti

Published: 7 Oct 2016

Dr Nicholas Argenti has conducted research in Cameroon in the 1990s, focusing in particular on the social consequences of political violence, changing power relations in small-scale rural communities, tensions between youth and elders, and the interconnections between local and national political systems. He has published many articles on Cameroon and The Intestines of the State:…

Dr. Jill Alpes

Published: 7 Oct 2016

Dr. Alpes is a researcher at the Law Faculty of the Free University Amsterdam, a visiting fellow at the CERI at Sciences Po Paris and currently serves as the coordinator of the Post-Deportation Monitoring Network. Dr. Alpes has conducted extended and repeated fieldwork periods in Cameroon since 2007. Her research addresses issues in human trafficking,…

Benjamin N. Lawrance, Ph.D.

Published: 6 Oct 2016

Barber B. Conable, Jr. Endowed Professor of International Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology Benjamin N. Lawrance is the Conable Chair in International Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology. He has conducted field research in West Africa since 1997 and published extensively about political and social conditions. He has served as an expert witness in the…

Women Poverty Eradication Centre (WOPEC) Cameroon

Published: 6 Oct 2016

WOPEC tries to create a good environment for women through positive economic and social policies and activities, for the full development of women to enable them to realize their full potentials. They foster equal access of women to health care, quality education at all levels, career and vocational guidance, employment, equal remuneration, occupational health and…

Refugees Welfare Association (REWAC) Cameroon

Published: 6 Oct 2016

Refugees Welfare Association (REWAC) Cameroon is a small indigenous non-governmental organisation registered under Cameroon law in March 2009. It is dedicated to actions, activities, projects and programmes that defend the rights of refugees, asylum seekers and forcibly displaced persons. The organisation was started in Tiko, Cameroon by a group of legal minds concerned about the…