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Place of Birth: Littoral, Cameroon
About Alice Nkom
- Alice Nkom (born January 14, 1945) is a Cameroonian lawyer, well known for her advocacy towards decriminalization of homosexuality in Cameroon.
- She studied law in Toulouse and has been a lawyer in Douala since 1969.
- At the age of 24, she was the first black French-speaking woman called to the bar in Cameroon.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.
- For her achievements in the fight against an "anti-gay crackdown", she was listed number two in The New Yorker's "The Eight Most Fascinating Africans of 2012" ranking.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.
- 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, and who was named a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.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).
- In March 2014, Alice Nkom was awarded with the "7.
- Menschenrechtspreis" (7th human rights award) by the German section of Amnesty International.
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