Leaked documents place Sudan’s army commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan at the heart of a secret chlorine munitions programme. As his generals manufactured and deployed chemical weapons, al-Burhan watched — and then ordered the traces erased. This CHRAPA report exposes the full scope of the programme, its victims, and the international failure to hold the Sudanese […]
STAFF CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT AND STAFFING Staff capacity development remains important for the organization. While all project staff and members benefitted from an internal trainings on Emergency Response in Crisis Situation, CHRAPA also organized a training on basic notions of human rights monitoring. With the current humanitarian crisis in the Northwest and South west Region of […]
PARTNERSHIPS AND NETWORKING i) National Level CHRAPA in 2022, remained the Chairperson of the Union of Northwest Human Rights Organisations. It also occupied the vice chair of the Cameroon Association for Voluntary Development CAVOD. CHRAPA also carried out several presentations on human rights and the rule of law for trainings organised by local partners like […]
RECRUITMENT OF STAFF CHRAPA staff capacity has continue to grow. Two staff, a Livelihood Officer and a GBV Officer were recruited. This was preceded by the recruitment and training of 10 community paralegal officers to work in regions. That is the Northwest and Southwest Regions. Five community mobilizers were also identified in each of these […]
SUPPORT TO INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS CHRAPA during the year, carried out several activities to support IDPs, with support from it’s Goodwill Ambassadors., CHRAPA from March to September 2022, carried out several activities to support IDPs. The objective of this initiative was to: Increased economic support to GBV survivors, public awareness and social mobilization against Sexual […]
TRAININGS. 2.1 TRAINING OF TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES. The Centre for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy carried out several trainings of women leaders across the seven divisions of the Northwest Region, male political leaders, youth groups judiciary amongst others. This trainings for women and traditional leaders had as objective to empower women leaders and traditional authorities with […]
.Promotion of Human Rights Education and Sensitisation With support from it’s different partners and within the framework of the Programme promoting Access to Justice as a Means to Promote Social Cohesion and Access to Justice Paralegal, CHRAPA carried out several education campaigns on human rights promotion, access to justice and the rule of Law. These […]
Executive Summary Within the framework of CHRAPA’s mandate to promote and protect human rights, and within the context of the ongoing conflict in the two Anglophone regions, the year 2022 was characterized by continuous school shut downs, ghost towns which have the paralyzed economy, burning and looting of private and public properties and indiscriminate arrest, […]
CHRAPA is an independent, non-governmental, non-partisan, non- sectarian human rights organization established in May 2001. It is a national organization with international dimension. The centre has been monitoring, documenting and following up human rights violations in Cameroon since its creation. It has special consultative status with ECOSOC of the UN and also with the […]
Executive Summary of CHRAPA Within the framework of CHRAPA’s mandate to promote and protect human rights, and within the context of the ongoing conflict in the two Anglophone regions, the year 2022 was characterized by continuous school shut downs, ghost towns which have the paralyzed economy, burning and looting of private and public properties and […]
Cameroon: North West – UNIFEM – CHRAPA Join Hands to Fight Violence Bamenda — The United Nations Development Fund for women (UNIFEM) and the Bamenda -based Center for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy (CHRAPA) are believers that violence against women still trives and must be combated by more collegial and strategic efforts.That was topical on […]
Human trafficking has continued to increase in Cameroon thanks to armed conflicts in the North-West and South-West regions since 2016. In doing so, insecurity, displacement and poverty have made many people vulnerable or even victims of the phenomenon of human trafficking. For CHRAPA (Center for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy), this phenomenon is not only a […]
A total of about 16,835 were directly sensitized or educated by CHRAPA through its community mobilization, education and sensitization programs. This comprised a total of 4,708 Youths, 5207 Women, 6,044 Men, 547 Mbororos and 349 People Living With Disabilities (PLWD). On the overall, CHRAPA and its media partners estimates that at least 76,500 persons were […]
CHRAPA did recruit a GBV specialist called Mrs. Bonglam Agnes in the Month of September 2019 (See the TOR for the recruitment of the GBV specialist for details attached to this report as appendix 01 details) and proceeded to recruit 14 paralegals resident the above mentioned project areas in Section 1.5 above in the month […]
During the identification process, 500 dignity kits were distributed to various GBV victims(very desperate cases), the physically challenged women and those women traumatized by the crisis that needed counselling to raise their hope/give dignity (as we identified cases of many women with kids whose husbands were murdered in front of them and have undergone lots […]
The Centre for human Rights and Peace Advocacy (CHRAPA) Cameroon Wins award to contribute to strengthened people’s ability to demand and defend their rights, access justice and fulfill their duties as a human rights principle. The award that was received on the 30th of October 2018, from the United States Embassy in Cameroon, comes at […]
While community paralegals continued with sensitization and education, the first half of December was dedicated to the celebration of the 16 days of Activism. CHRAPA joined the International Community and participated in several activities dedicated for these celebrations. On the 07/12/2019, at the Mondial hotel Conference Hall, CHRAPA organized a training of 36 traditional leaders […]
Written statement submitted by the Centre for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status; Human rights situation in India [30 May 2016] [A/HRC/32/NGO/132]
GBV cases were identified and reported by the community to protection actors and documented cases processed Baseline:0 Target: 500 Achieved activities: An estimated 600% Success rate as 3014 people were identified instead of the 500 previewed (This is because the situation in the NW is quite dire, due to the on-going crisis lots of GBV […]
CHRAPA did establish quick impact projects for various beneficiaries. The livelihoods aspect of the project that is principally focused the following areas as per the project expectations: Identify 5 super-fast income generating activities Quick impact projects are setup to economically support GBV survivors and women groups Organize multiple hands on trainings with beneficiaries till they […]
Press café theme: what should be the content of the special status recommended for the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon? The press café started at 2:20 with a word from Madam Grace Ngwafor who welcomed all and it was followed by the rundown of the objectives and expectations of the press […]
Our institutional goal is to promote human rights and peace and to facilitate the development of a democratic culture in Cameroon by working in collaboration with communities, grassroots institutions other civil society organizations and the government.
The Centre for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy CHRAPA now has an international office in Geneva Switzerland. The office situated at Rue Sonnex 34 1218 Le Grand-Saconnex Geneve has as goal to serve as liaison to the United Nations. The Office is headed by Njomo Romuald and Anatol Owona.
With the intention to combat extreme poverty, CHRAPA, OCAPROCE International, the Moroccan and Brazilian Permanent Missions to the UN in Geneva, from the 5th to the 7th of November 2018, at the Geneva International Conference Centre organized a Cultural week on the 10th Anniversary of the International NGO Forum on the Economic, Social and […]
The 21st of November 2018, remains a special day in the life of the Centre for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy (CHRAPA). It was a warm and memorable day because the United Nations Office in Geneva-Switzerland, appreciated and honoured the work we have been doing in the promotion and protection of human rights in […]