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tional reforms that would protect minority concerns, 
such as reconstituting a Federal system; 
(B) follow through on the initiatives developed 
to address grievances, including the Commission of 
Bilingualism and Multiculturalism, the Ministry of 
Decentralization, and the National Commission for 
Disarmament, Demobilization, Reintegration, that 
currently offer no visible evidence of having played 
a constructive role in resolving the crisis; 
(C) respect the fundamental rights of all 
Cameroonian citizens, including political activists 
and journalists; 
(D) ensure that any security operations are 
conducted in accordance with international human 
rights standards, including efforts to ensure secu-
rity forces only use force under appropriate cir-
cumstances; 
(E) transparently investigate all allegations of 
human 
rights 
violations 
committed 
in 
the 
Anglophone regions and take the necessary meas-
ures to prevent arbitrary detention, torture, en-
forced disappearances, deaths in custody, and inhu-
mane prison conditions; 
(F) promptly charge or release all those de-
tained in the context of the Anglophone crisis, in-
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cluding the Cameroonians forcibly returned from 
Nigeria, and ensure that any future detainees are 
treated with due process, in line with Cameroon’s 
penal code; 
(G) allow unfettered access to humanitarian 
and health care workers in accordance with humani-
tarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impar-
tiality, and independence; 
(H) release the leaders and members of the 
Cameroon Renaissance Movement party who were 
arrested following their peaceful protests, and en-
sure that this party, like others, can participate un-
fettered in upcoming municipal, parliamentary, and 
regional elections; 
(I) release human rights defenders, civil society 
activists, political prisoners, journalists, trade 
unionists, teachers, and any other citizens who have 
been arbitrarily arrested and detained without trial 
or charge; 
(J) ensure that detainees are treated fairly and 
humanely, with proper judicial proceedings, includ-
ing a registry of those detained by the Cameroonian 
security forces, and with full access to legal re-
sources; and
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(K) ensure that Cameroon’s antiterrorism leg-
islation is used only to prosecute offenses that 
would be considered acts of terrorism under inter-
national legal standards, and cease to use this legis-
lation to sanction activities that are protected by 
national and international guarantees of freedom of 
expression, peaceful assembly, and association with 
others; and 
(5) urges the separatist groups to— 
(A) engage with Cameroonian government offi-
cials, as well as civil society and religious leaders, 
in a broad-based dialogue without preconditions to 
peacefully express grievances and credibly engage in 
nonviolent efforts to resolve the conflict; 
(B) immediately stop committing human rights 
abuses, including killings of civilians, use of child 
soldiers, torture, kidnapping, and extortion; 
(C) end the school boycott immediately and 
cease attacks on schools, teachers, and education of-
ficials, and allow for the safe return of all students 
to class; 
(D) end incitement to violence and hate speech 
on the part of the diaspora; and
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(E) immediately release all civilians illegally 
detained or kidnapped in the Anglophone Northwest 
and Southwest regions. 
Attest: 
Clerk.