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UN Development Programme (UNDP)
Executive Board: Cameroon

Cameroon is using foreign counterterrorism assistance to fund its brutal repression of citizens with legitimate grievances. Photo: A Cameroonian soldier (Courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
Source: Foreign Policy, November 22, 2020

Mission of the UN Development Programme: "UNDP works in nearly 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion... UNDP focuses on helping countries build and share solutions in three main areas: Sustainable development; Democratic governance and peacebuilding; Climate and disaster resilience." (UN Development Programme website, "Overview")

Term of office: 2022-2024

Cameroon's Record on "democratic governance and peacebuilding":
"Significant human rights issues included: unlawful or arbitrary killings, including extrajudicial killings by security forces,... serious problems with the independence of the judiciary;...substantial interference with the right of peaceful assembly and freedom of association; serious restrictions on freedom of movement; inability of citizens to change their government peacefully through free and fair elections; restrictions on political participation;... There were numerous reports that the government or its agents committed arbitrary and unlawful killings through excessive use of force in the execution of their official duties... "
(U.S. State Department's Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2020, Cameroon)

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