The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Cameroon announces with pride its latest achievement in the fight to end violence against women and girls in Cameroon which is a long term partnership with LUKMEF-Cameroon and the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women and Girls (UNTF)
The outcome of this partnership is an ongoing three year project titled building a community level agenda to end violence against women and girls in Cameroon. Thanks to this project FIDA Cameroon has successfully translated provisions of national and international legislation regulating and punishing violence against women and girls into twelve of Cameroon’s national languages.
FIDA Cameroon will also in the days ahead proceed to organize in six of Cameroons ten regions awareness raising campaigns on violence against women as human rights violations and the benefits of living in a community free of violence against women and girls. This activity shall be carried out through media programs, informative posters pasting and distribution of leaflets as well as organize training workshops for leaders of civil society organizations in the six regions specified in the project namely North West, South West, and Littoral, West, Centre and East regions. A support program for these civil society organizations shall also be put in place for community based mobilization and the recruitment of men/boys into the HeForShe Campaign.
In collaboration with our partners we shall also establish (where absent) or reinforce (where available) six regional Zero tolerance networks of Community Based Organizations with multi-sector actors and provide training and support for about 200 CBO members.
FIDA Cameroon, LUKMEF-Cameroon and other partners are also working within this project’s framework on the publication of bi-annual zero tolerance newsletters. We look forward to collaborating with other members of the civil society in Cameroon for the achievement of this great task.
FIDA Cameroon and its partners continues in their relentless effort to empower strengthen the Cameroonian Women and girl child towards achieving their full potentials in a society free of all forms of violence and discrimination against women.
Together we are stronger.
