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Lastly, Cameroon has developed cooperation with international non-governmental
organizations such as Plan Cameroon for child-centred community development, SOS
Kinderdorf for care of orphans in the Children‟s Villages, HACI, OSIWA and Care
Cameroon.
D. General Legal Framework for Protection of Human Rights
The country has a raft of protocols, charters, ratified international conventions, national
laws and regulations that govern human rights protection in general, and those of the child
in particular. These ratified international instruments supersede the national instruments.
The preamble of Act 96-06 of 18 January 1996 on the revision of the 2 June 1972
constitution states that the human being, without distinction of race, religion, sex or belief
has sacred inalienable rights. Furthermore, Cameroon is committed to the basic freedoms
set forth in the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the
African Charter on Human and Peoples‟ Rights, and all relevant ratified international
conventions.
Cameroon is also party to the following international instruments:
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The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1997);
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The Convention on the Rights of the Child (1993);
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ILO Convention 138 on the minimum age for admission to employment;
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ILO Convention 182 on the Elimination of the Worst forms of Discrimination
Against Women, acceded to by the country on 4 December 2004;
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United Nations additional protocol of 15 November 2000 against organized
transnational crime; its protocol to prevent, suppress, and punish trafficking in
persons, especially children; Cameroon ratified this protocol per decree of 18
November 2004;
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Ratification of the resolutions of the 11th General Assembly of the World
Tourism Organization, 1995 in Cairo, Egypt, on the prevention of organized
sex tourism;
National legislation includes: