Author : Nana charles nguindip
Keyword : Right, nondiscrimination, protection, refugee, status, cameroonian, law
Subject : Law and human behavior
Article Type : Original article (research)
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Abstract : t International human rights law has clearly established that not all distinction in treatment constitute discrimination. This is summed by the axiom persons who are equal should be treated equally, those who are different should be treated equally, and those who are different should be treated differently. Although not all differences in treatment are discriminatory, international law establishes criteria for determining when a distinction amounts to discrimination. Concisely, as we will be examining in this article, the concept of non-discrimination of persons especially those pertaining to foreigners has been embraced by the Cameroonian government with lots of determination. This initiative of foreigners protection in safeguarding its non-discriminatory to those who enters its territory in the status of a foreigner are given minimum protection in the respect and protection of their fundamental human rights. This initiative has gone a long way through the enactment of relevant laws and institutional set up in ensuring that foreigners entering the territory of Cameroon should be free from any sort of discriminatory practices, even though such protection offered has raised lots of questioning, certainties and worries in the eyes of many, and even the international community at large. The question here is to entertain whether the various human rights and legal dispositions effected by the Cameroon legal machineries has really provided that minimum protected provided by the international community when dealing with human right issues especially those pertaining to non-discriminatory as far as treatment of refugees are concerned.
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Article add date : 2020-12-13
How to cite : Nana charles nguindip. (2020-December-13). The right to non-discrimination and the protection of refugee status under cameroonian law. retrieved from https://openacessjournal.com/abstract/438