Despite being vilified, threatened and humiliated in public, veteran Cameroonian lawyer Alice Nkom is determined to uphold the rights of homosexual people in her country. A human rights NGO that she ...

Out of more than 2,000 lawyers in Cameroon, Alice Nkom and her colleague Michel Togué are the only two prepared to defend the human rights of the local LGBTQ community. Nkom has devoted her life to ...

Despite death threats, Alice Nkom is taking on Cameroon’s repressive law in the supreme court and says her campaign is part of a wider struggle for human rights Alice Nkom knows she might not be alive ...

Ten years ago, some gay French friends were visiting Cameroon and I found myself advising them to be careful. Homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon, as it is in much of Africa, and the state is quick ...