TACKLING DISCRIMINATORY GENDER NORMS IN CAMEROON

In 2022, 979,000 people in Cameroon were in need of gender-based violence (GBV) services—94 per cent of whom were women and girls. According to Loveline Musah, CEO of United Youths Organization (UYO), harmful social norms in Cameroon have “… If a man violates a woman physically or sexually, it’s because communities believe that men are more powerful than women. And these beliefs perpetuate GBV.”