Director of the Cameroonian Foundation for AIDS
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2014-016-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2014
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 7.36972199999999
Longitude: 12.354722
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Cameroon
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Special Procedures: Thematic
- Dates of prior UN action
- 13 August 2013
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Gender
- Gender unclear
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Individual's/organization's activity
Director of the Cameroonian Foundation for AIDS
- Type of rights defended
- LGBTIQ rights
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
On 5 July 2013, the Director of the Cameroonian Foundation for AIDS, who had contributed to the report of Human Rights Watch that had addressed recommendations to the second review of Cameroon, was found dead at his home in Yaoundé.
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Human Rights Council: UPR
- Dates of engagement
- Unclear
- Type of attempted engagement
- Submission of information to UN
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- 05 July 2013
- Location of mentioned reprisals
- Yaoundé
- Reprisal information
0n 5 July 2013, the Director of the Cameroonian Foundation for AIDS, who had contributed to the report of Human Rights Watch that had addressed recommendations to the second review of Cameroon, was found dead at his home in Yaoundé.
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Physical attack: Killing
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- Unclear
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Further case development
At the time of finalization of the report, no reply had been received from the Government to the joint communication sent on 13 August 2013 by a group of special procedures mandate holders
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0