About Us

CYJULERC was founded by Ayuk Esther in 2003(Registration No. 237G37/D.14/1/VOL8/I/OAPP of 03/05/2005) when she realized the urgent need for the promotion of human rights in Cameroon. knee — and so on.
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Most Cameroonians are ignorant of the laws governing them and there can be no genuine democracy if the citizens are not educated and sensitized on the rules and regulations in force. There is a lot of abuse of the basic fundamental rights of citizens

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People are ignorant of most of the international human rights instruments and other numerous specific instruments that Cameroon has ratified. For this reason, their basic human rights are grossly violated and often with impunity.

Women in Cameroon still undergo discriminatory traditional, customary and cultural practices, such as female genital mutilation, girl-child marriage, and breast ironing. They are also very poor because many do not have the opportunity to go to school and so depend solely on the men for subsistence. Many children are also abandoned by their parents and that is why there are many children in the streets of major cities in Cameroon. These children are arrested and detained in violation of the special laws that protect them partly because law enforcement officers are ignorant of the provisions of the relevant laws and also because the children do not have counsel to represent them. Advocacy for legislation and to influence state policy is one of CYJULERC main activity which is why CYJULERC has succeeded to influence the state to adopt the series of laws on women’s and children’s rights.

Our Impact

5 M+

NUMBER OF LIVES TOUCHED

7

LEGISLATIONS ADOPTED

2

AWARDS &
RECOGNITIONS

WHAT WE DO

“Committed to Translating laws into actual services for women and children .”

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OUR VISION

Our vision is to protect human rights promotes social justice and create a community free of abuse and marginalization for women and children, and to contribute to building a fair and equitable society that guarantees the respect of human rights, the rule of law and a better world for women and children. CYJULERC strongly holds that living a dignified life is indispensable to humanity. We are committed to promoting human rights, sustainable development initiatives for women, children, marginalized communities, and promote legal consciousness. Our goal is to ensure equal rights for men and women, end violence against women and children, promote social justice, rule of law, empower women and communities to contribute to a world free of abuse for women and children.

Our Objective

The overall objective is to promote and secure the respect of human rights with a focus on women, children, and marginalised communities.

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To promote women by empowering them economically, socially and politically, and by fighting against trends and tendencies that entrench a culture of gender exclusion, marginalization, poverty, ignorance and lack of self-esteem and specifically: to promote the enforcement of the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and other international conventions, covenants and agreements in Cameroon;

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To use the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to promote and protect Children’s Human Rights by fighting against child trafficking, child labour and juvenile delinquency;

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To promote the implementation of all national and international human rights laws adopted and ratified by Cameroon;

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To promote legal education through capacity building of all stake holders and creating awareness in communities;

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To promote legal education through capacity building of all stake holders and creating awareness in communities;

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To do advocacy and lobby with the government on issues affecting women and children; To ensure access to justice through legal aid to women, children, the poor and the abused;

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To implement strategies of the International Plan of Action for Human Rights;

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To collaborate with national, regional and international partners and networks to address human rights concerns in the country and the region.

Empowering women is synonymous to asserting and achieving women’s rights, that is why CYJULERC has embarked on providing sustainable livelihoods, and economic empowerment of marginalized communities. CYJULERC has been running a micro-credit scheme to fund small businesses for women, training women internally displaced by conflict in sustainable relief agribusinesses, organizing the collection and marketing of non timber forest products (NTFPs) and promoting sustainable environmental and forestry practices through sustainable harvesting and reforestation. For over ten (10) years, CYJULERC worked with, and organized women and NTFP farmers in Manyu Division into a Cooperative called CYNFACOOP).

OUR PARTNERS

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Cordaid

Pum Netherlands

Wim A.E. Jansen

Stem Van Afri

Rotary

One Men

Miva

Miva brengt

AWA

Cordaid

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