Human rights commission swears in 18 new members

They took oath at a hearing at the Supreme Court sitting in joint session Thursday.

"Me, I swear to fill with probity and accuracy functions entrusted to me, respect the laws and regulations that govern and observe in all the duties they impose me."

This sentence was pronounced 18 times yesterday in the hearing room of the supreme court by the new members of the National Commission on the rights of Man and Freedoms (Cndhl).

Facing them, the members of the High Court present under the chairmanship of its leaders, Alexis Dipanda Mouelle, first president and Martin Rissouk à Moulong, Prosecutor. This oath now gives them the possibility to perform their duties for the next five years.

But before that, the assistance followed the requisitions of the Attorney general at the Supreme Court. In addition to the recall of the missions devolved to the Commission, contained in law No. 2004/016 of 22 July 2004, Martin Rissouk à Moulong focused his remarks on a topic sticky to the news.

"The Commission face the challenges of time: the case of the refugees. Today, outside her frame of normal activities, this institution is arrested on the double front of flows of refugees who reach Cameroon in the daily life of the Central African crisis and attacks of Boko Haram in Nigeria," reminded the Attorney general.

Facing some 245,000 registered refugees, the National Commission on freedoms and human rights is thus called to accompany the Government and the organizations of the system of the relevant Nations in the tasks of awareness and education for refugees in their different places for the host communities with which they coexist.

The National Commission on freedoms and human rights is composed of 30 members. They come from different professional backgrounds. There are magistrates of the seat representing the Supreme Court, representatives of the two chambers of the Parliament, academics, and representatives of religious faiths, liberal professions, journalists and representatives of public administrations.