FICHE D’INFORMATIONS CONTENANT LES ELEMENTS DE CONTRIBUTION DU MINISTERE DE LA PROMOTION DE LA FEMME ET DE LA FAMILLE AU QUESTIONNAIRE RELATIF AUX FEMMES PRIVEES DE LIBERTE
     I/ Justice System:
  
1.	What are the main causes for women coming into conflict with the law and facing the associated deprivation of liberty, including pre-trial detention? Which are the groups of women who are most vulnerable and why? Please list the types of offenses for which women or any particular group of women is typically charged with including administrative offenses.

The causes are variedly based on politics, policies, and economics factors, technological, social, environmental, cultural and judicial causes. For instance, the level of the illiteracy of the woman population is very high. Ignorance is another cause. The Patriarchal made and political sphere don’t make things easy for women because even issues that concerns women emancipation are decided by men at the legislative, judicial and executive levels. Poverty has been feminized.
Women at all levels status in Society are vulnerable because of the reasons mentioned above. However, the rural woman in her ignorance and illiteracy are mostly hit. The girl child is also victim of her naivity and lake of knowledge of the laws that operates around her.
           When they are pushed to the walls, their reactions are not proportionate to the attacks hence her response to provocation and marginalisation is not prorata. Hence their responses to violence are often out of measure because they can kill the aggressor.
             Some of the offenses for which women are typically charged are stealing, adultery, violence, kidnappings abortion, infanticide, murder, corruption and mismanagement.

2.	Please indicate if there are cases of women facing detention in relation to civil law suits and identify the particular groups of women mostly affected
Many women face detention in relation to civil law suit as a result of abuse of confidence, violence, abuse of Human rights, disturbance of quiet enjoyment.
Big like small level women are both affected. However working class women who like dresses and other worldly things are often victims. They engage into advance fee fraud just to meet up with high life standards.

      3 . What are the main challenges for women’s access to justice including for example the availability and quality of legal representation, the ability to pay for bail and the existence of gender stereotyping and bias in judicial proceedings?
          The main challenges that women face to access justice are enormous and many. For instance, many are ignorant of their rights. Some of them are not courageous to go to Institutions in order to solve their problems. They are not sufficiently sensitized on how to promote and protect their rights .The character and behaviour of Workers in such Institutions leaves much to be desired because they hurt rather than cure.
          The quality of legal representation is lacking. In that we don’t have judicial officers and lawyers who have specialized in specific fields. Most of the actors are general practitions. Even if she comes to court Probono i.e Legal and of a lawyer cannot be accorder her because her offence is not within the ambit of criminal offences like Murder or aggraded theft.
	Concerning her ability to pay for bail is dicey because she is suffering from poverty. She has no collateral security that she can gage to off her lien.
	A gender stereotype exist and affects women in various forms. For instance most of the judiciary is made up of the masculine gender. It is diisheartening to not that even decisions that practically and strategically concerns the woman, the decision is taken by men. Women are not only erromoushy referred to as the weaker sex, they are equally treated as children who have to be girded and orientated.

4-	what have been the main drivers for the increasing on decreasing of the femal prison population in your country in the past decade? To what extent are non-custodial measures used in accordance with the in rules for the treatment of women prisoners and non-custodial Measures for women offenders (Bangkok Rules) 
	The new penal code of 2016 makes room for alternative punishments. Instead of sending her to prison; she can be commuted to do community serves for the duration of her imprisonment. This alternative measure helps to decongest the prisons.

II-	OTHER INSTITUTIONS
1.	What other institutions outside the justice system that prudes extra judicial cures correction, protection and prevention against potential harm etc?? Please list the groups of women and girls who are most concerned in each situation.
Some of these institutions are like the Bostal institute in institute in Buea. Some civil society organization provide such post care and lure to women, children and families in difficulties like the Orchidi Centre in Douala, the Bobile D’or un Yaounde and the home Ateher in Douala and children distress Centre in Betamba in Ntui Division. MINPROFF in conjunction with the CPFF provides temporal help and shelter to women in difficulties. Centre for women in distress at Nkolbisson.
The group of women and girls musty concerned are prostitutes, out of school youths, Women’s actors of violence, kleptomanias and those suffering from psychopathology.
2.	Please explain the decision-making process for the institutionalization of women and girls in each situation, including the role of women and girls in the decision on institutionalization. Please highlight any good practice in terms of enabling women to exercise agency within institutional systems, with due respect to them rights
	The policy an institutionalization of women in their role is taken by the state that formulates policies, programs in strategies to realize them goals. Even though some policies are made without due concertation with the concerned populations, the decisions after arrived at is a misguided Charity. This notwithstanding we have the institution of the women empowerment and family Centre at the public and private sections that is arms at empowering and emancipation women and the girl child.
	The best practices to share is that upon graduation from the CPFF MINPROFF gives you a startup capital to enable the apprentice to engage into youth and women entree premiership where theory shall be self employed, creat  jobs for stress and above all make herself financially independent.

III. FORCED CONFINEMENT IN PRIVATE CONTEXTS
1.	What forms of forced confinement of women and girls exist in a private or social context sanctioned by family community or group of undurdnaks such  abduction, servitude, gnardranship and “honour” practices, traffickking, home detention, “witch camps without hood rites etc.
	Forced confinement or imprisonment exist in Cameroon but at a negligible rate. However there are some abusive detentions at law enforcement whit by over Zealous law enforcement officers who extra judicially detain persons because of personal gains. On the other hand some hospitals detain and quarantine some patients and women who have delivered children and are unable so settle then hospital bills.
2.	Please identify the groups of women and girls who are most affected by these situations.
Such women and girls who are victims of false imprisonment or forced confinement are prostitutes, women involved in abuse of confidence especially those who borrow Money from Njangis and refuse tou repay the loan, failure to pay house rents, patients and nursing mothers at hospitals and some women who steal or join gangs of thieves. Prisoners are confined after their term of imprisonment because they cannot pay their fees or changes.
3.	What is the role of law and policy (including customary law and authorities in your Country concerning these types of confinement?
Most of such confinements are not lacked lay the law and policies. It is just an illegal human creation to liquidate debts or settle scores or humiliate that personality. The law makes provision for the recovery of debts in a simplified procedure but it is often flwated for personal and illicit gains.

IV-MIGRATION AND CRISIS SITUATION
1.	What are the specific risks of detention and confinement encountered by women on the move in the context of asyhim seeking?
	The risks of detention and confinement of asylum seekers leads to death, illnesses, and impoverishment in that property is sold to enable yon travel. If you cannot get to the destination to work money and return it back to Rehnquist your loams, your family is ostracized and stigmatized. 
2.	What is the policy relating so the administrative detention of women migrants including pregnant women and women with children?
	This inhuman treatment is dehumanging there are policies no doubt that control illegal migration but the off Urals enfone it wrongly. At times children die as a result of starvation in those detention camps. Mothers are separated from their children when cause psychological break down.