Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published May 20, 2009.
In Western Africa, Cameroon is a country noted for relative political and social stability compared to its neighbors. But while the country's politics stay out of the global headlines, it is on the radar of human rights watchdogs. Child trafficking, persection of gays and lesbians, sexual assualt and torture of prisoners are just some of the abuses. The government has been reluctant to raise awareness about these human rights violations and so, as FSRN's Tanya Castle reports, there is a new generation of young people taking on the challenge themselves.
