Women working for peace in Cameroon

On 5 December, the Chaplain-President was humbled to attend a presentation by the Convention nationale des Femmes pour la Paix au Cameroun (1st National Women’s Convention for Peace in Cameroon (camerounpeaceconvention.org)) held at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Brussels (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (fes.de)). This interfaith group of women has made enormous strides in Cameroon in addressing jihadist violence in the north of the country and a secessionist civil war in the west of the country. We wish them all good things in their struggle for the rights of women and girls and we celebrate their ability to speak enthusiastically, firmly and constructively to all the principal protagonists in Cameroon.