Alice Nkom
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Alice Nkom (2010)
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| Born | 1945 Putkak, Cameroon |
| Nationality | Cameroonian |
| Occupation | lawyer |
| Known for | LGBT advocacy, first black female lawyer in Cameroon |
Alice Nkom is a Cameroonian lawyer, well known for her advocacy towards decriminalization of homosexuality in Cameroon.[1][2][3] She studied law in Toulouse and has been a lawyer in Douala [4]since 1969. At the age of 24, she was the first black woman called to the bar in Cameroon.[5]
Her work involved the defence in a variety of situations, including young victims of police violence, but she became best known for her defence of people accused of homosexuality (criminalized in Cameroon). In 2003 she founded ADEFHO: the Association for the Defence of Homosexuality, and she became more and more the shining example of a "ally to the LGBT cause".
In January 2011, she was threatened with arrest by a representative of Cameroon's Ministry of Communication after ADEFHO was awarded a €300,000 grant by the European Union.[6] Later that year, she represented Jean-Claude Roger Mbede, a man imprisoned for three years for "homosexuality and attempted homosexuality" following a series of SMS messages to a male acquaintance,[6] and who was named a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.[7]
In 2006 and 2013, she was a keynote speaker at the Human Rights conferences that took place in conjunction with the OutGames, in Montréal Canada (2006) and Antwerp Belgium (2013).[8] In March 2014, Alice Nkom was awarded with the "7. Menschenrechtspreis" (7th human rights award) by the German section of Amnesty International.[9]
See also
- Joel Gustave Nana Ngongang, Cameroonian LGBT activist
- LGBT rights in Africa
- LGBT rights in Cameroon
References
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