Region: Cameroon

From Zimbabwe to Kashmir to Pakistan and beyond, legal challenges to internet shutdowns are becoming more common — and so are the victories. 

There is an ongoing human rights crisis in Cameroon. The international community must act.

We identify six areas for digital rights in which the new U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights could have a key and definitive voice during her tenure.

Access Now is supporting plaintiffs in Cameroon, who are challenging the government’s decision to shut down the internet in Anglophone regions of the country. The blocks harmed the human rights of millions, and stand in violation of international law.

Should the International Monetary Fund give loans to Cameroon when it shuts down the internet, harming human rights and the economy?

Our letter highlights the fact that Cameroon has not reported its internet shutdowns, which damage the economy.

Our letter to the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, urges the United Nations to address recent human rights violations committed by the Republic of Cameroon against the country’s Anglophone population.

It has come without fanfare, and with widespread lack of confidence in its permanency, but the latest internet shutdown in Anglophone Cameroon has largely come to an end.

People who live through internet shutdowns almost never get redress for harm during the disruptions. Our intervention seeks to change that.

In Iran, the DRC, Ethiopia, and Cameroon, governments are responding to protests by imposing internet shutdowns. It has to stop.