In a statement, the absorption Cameroon Renaissance Movement (CRM) enactment said it was outraged by the "tragic recurrence of home femicides" and accused the authorities of being passive astir the issue.
The femicide cases, astir of which are attributed to home violence, person been reported successful antithetic parts of the country.
In a video published by authorities media, the curate for Women's Empowerment and the Family, Marie-Thérèse Abena Ondoa, condemned the "worrying" emergence successful the fig of the killings, and said the authorities was moving to code the problem.
She mentioned a measure to support women against gender-based violence, which she said was being reviewed by the premier minister.
But civilian nine and women's rights groups person denounced what they comprehend arsenic the government's hold successful turning the measure into law.
A parliamentary session, the past 1 for the year, is owed to beryllium held successful November. However, Viviane Tathi, whose organisation documents cases of femicide successful the country, told the BBC she was not definite that the measure would beryllium passed astatine the session.
"We are disquieted due to the fact that the November parliamentary league focuses connected budgetary debates…So, we don't cognize by what magic this measure volition beryllium passed," she said.
She has called for the instauration of a peculiar tribunal to grip household disputes, which pb to home violence.
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