Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Periodic Report Under Scrutiny

A workshop to validate the Common Core Document and Cameroon’s 4^th report ends today September 15, 2016 in Yaounde.

Cameroon’s 4^th periodic report to the Commission on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations is being examined in Yaounde. Participants at the two-day get-together, which started yesterday September 14, 2016, are also expected to endorse the Common Core Document drafted by Cameroon according to harmonised new directives of Human Rights Treaty Bodies.

The Secretary General in the Ministry of Justice, George Gwanmesia, while opening the validation workshop on behalf of the Minister of State, Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals, stressed the importance of the two-fold meeting, which aims at presenting the situation of human rights promotion in Cameroon. The meeting therefore seeks to update the Common Core Document, which provides general information, notably on demographic, economic, political and legal structures with statistical indicators on issues such as health, housing, education and criminality, amongst others. The Common Core Docum...