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Progressive Initiative for Cameroon (PICAM) Press Release

PICAM has launched its Democracy and Human Rights Monitoring (DHRM) project. It is premised on the fact that the situation of democracy and human rights in Cameroon remains appalling. This project will serve as a watchdog for governmental actions by monitoring, documenting, and publicizing violations of the principles of democracy and human rights across the country. This will ensure that injustice and flagrant human rights violations in Cameroon do not continue unchecked and unreported.

Important project links include the following:

http://www.picam.org/projects/DHRM/home.htm Report Hotline: http://www.picam.org/projects/DHRM/abuse-hotline.htm Abuse Categories: http://www.picam.org/projects/DHRM/categories-of-violations.htm

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Mr Mogae, who stepped down in April after two terms in office, said he was honoured and humbled by the award.

Botswana is one of Africa’s most stable countries – it has never had a coup and has had regular multi-party elections since independence in 1966.

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By Fonderson Asukwa in Brussels
7/18/2008

A Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) Belgium delegation comprising Chairman Mr. Rene Morfaw, Strategic Adviser, Mr. Kaavi Melchizedek and Administrative Secretary, Mr. Ernest Fon, last July 1st 2008 met with Prof Edward C. Luck, Special Adviser at the Assistant Secretary-General level to UN scribe, Ban Ki Moon.

Speaking in 1999, the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan challenged United Nations (UN) member states to address a conceptual vacuum in international relations between the principles of non-intervention and state sovereignty on the one hand, and the duty to respond to human rights violations such as genocide, ethnic cleansing and war crimes on the other.

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An unusual fruit from a native African tree, the baobab, is to be available in the UK after being approved by the EU. The fruit, contained in a hard nut, has six times more vitamin C than oranges and twice as much calcium as milk.

African people have eaten the fruit for thousands of years, but Europeans will consume its pulp as an ingredient in smoothies and cereal bars. Since 1997, foods not commonly consumed in the EU have had to be formally approved before going on sale.

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