Commission for human rights lawyers installed

Lawyers of the human rights commission, created in February 2015, have finally installed and it was led by one of the oldest lawyers of the Bâtonnier, Me Jackson Ngnié Kamga.

According to its newly installed president, Me Simon Pierre Etémé Etémé, “Bar Commission for Human Rights is specifically in charge of "inventing" domestic law standards that remain in phase with international law in which Cameroon is committed to.”

This is in order to submit to the deliberations of the Council of the College of lawyers the relevant draft amendments of the norm above, hence the importance of this commission which will have to rely on the bar in advocacy for the grooming of the Cameroonian legal arsenal from the perspective of compliance with international standards of realization, promotion and protection of human rights.

Specifically, the commission is entitled to inform the Council of the College of all violations of human rights it deems serious, from which they emanate. Therefore, it is responsible for conducting surveys in relation to its prerogatives.

This mission positions the order of lawyers as a real strategic observatory on human rights in the country.