Anglophone activist Abdul Karim Ali was still in pretrial detention since his arrest on 11 August 2022, after he appeared in a video accusing the Cameroonian military of torture. He was charged by a military tribunal alongside two of his colleagues for “hostility towards the homeland”, “failure to report”, “secession” and “rebellion”. At the end of the year, 43 activists and opposition leaders were still arbitrarily detained after being sentenced by a military court for taking part in a march on 22 September 2022, organized by the Cameroon Renaissance Movement opposition party. RIGHT TO LIFE NORTH-WEST AND SOUTH-WEST REGIONS In the two anglophone regions, both defence and security forces – sometimes in collaboration with local militias – and armed separatists carried out unlawful killings and murders.2 In June, at least 25 people were killed, 20 houses burnt down, and 2,500 people displaced due to armed violence in the village of Kedjom Keku, North-West region, according to the OCHA. Armed separatists targeted people they accused of not siding with them, collaborating with the army, or not paying the “liberation tax”. On 6 August, the authorities exhumed the bodies of nine people, including five government officials, who had been abducted by armed separatist groups in June 2021. On 4 October, armed separatists gathered inhabitants of the town of Guzang, NorthWest region together and shot dead two men.3 On 6 November, 25 people were reportedly killed in Egbekaw Village near Mamfe, SouthWest region by suspected armed separatists. ABUSES BY ARMED GROUPS FAR NORTH REGION Armed groups affiliated to ISWAP and JAS, descended from Boko Haram, continued to carry out attacks on villages along the border with Nigeria and on islands in Lake Chad. According to the OCHA, between 1 December 2022 and 30 November 2023, The State of the World’s Human Rights more than 280 civilians were killed by armed groups and more than 210 abducted. RIGHT TO EDUCATION Between January and July, at least 13 violent incidents against educational establishments were reported in the North-West and SouthWest regions, including the abduction of children and teachers, allegedly by armed separatist groups. In September, armed separatists forced schools to close for two weeks, and killed, abducted or physically assaulted several people for not obeying the lockdown, according to the OCHA. In both regions 2,245 schools remained closed due to the armed violence. RIGHT TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT On 9 September, a French court ordered the rubber plantation company Société Financière des Caoutchoucs – of which palm oil producer Société Camerounaise de Palmeraies is a subsidiary – to pay €140,000 to 145 villagers who were deprived of their land and suffered environmental pollution. LGBTI PEOPLE’S RIGHTS On 12 June, the National Communication Council threatened to suspend media outlets if they continued to broadcast “programmes promoting homosexual practices”. The same month, the French ambassador for LGBTQ+ rights cancelled his visit to Cameroon after the authorities opposed the planned programme of activities. 1. Africa: Anti-Corruption Fight in Peril – Crackdown on Anti-Corruption Human Rights Defenders in West and Central Africa, 11 July 2. Cameroon: With or Against Us: People of the North-West Region of Cameroon Caught Between the Army, Armed Separatists and Militias, 4 July 3. “Cameroon: The unlawful killings of two people by separatists must not go unpunished”, 6 October CANADA Canada 119