Join us for a webinar! Cameroon: the Conflict and its Impacts - 11/17 12pm ET

Please join the Office of Public Witness, the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations, the Presbyterian Hunger Program, World Mission, and the Office of Immigration Issues for a webinar Cameroon: the Conflict and its Impacts Tuesday, November 17th at 12pm ET Click here to register!   Since the beginning of 2020, the security and human rights situation in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon has greatly deteriorated. In the armed conflict known as the Anglophone Crisis, over 3,000 people have been killed and hundreds of villages have been destroyed, including 80 percent of schools in Anglophone regions. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 670,000 people have been internally displaced and approximately 58,000 people are now refugees. Since May, incidences of human rights violations committed by Cameroonian military forces and separatist groups have increased.   Anglophone Cameroonians fleeing violence have begun to migrate to the United States through South and Central America. Refugees face racial discrimination and violence as they travel to the US border, as well as dangerous conditions in the camps created to hold refugees stopped in Mexico at the request of the US government. Cameroonian refugees are at risk of contracting COVID-19 without access to medical care as they attempt to reach safety. Even once they reach their destination in the US, refugees are being detained and deported rather than offered asylum.   Please join us for a discussion of the conflict in Cameroon as well as the crisis facing Cameroonians fleeing the country.  Join our Stated Clerk along with our partners on the ground and immigrant rights activists as we learn more about the issues Cameroon is facing and avenues for advocacy - both for a diplomatic solution to the conflict and safety for those who are fleeing. Panelists: Jaff Bamenjo, Coordinator of the Network Against Hunger in Cameroon (RELUFA) RELUFA is a network of nonprofits, community-based organizations, and churches that united their forces 20 years ago to address systemic problems that generate and perpetuate poverty, hunger, and social, economic, and environmental injustices in Cameroon. RELUFA is part of the Presbyterian Joining Hands initiative.  Rev. Fonki Samuel Forba, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Cameroon Rev. Fonki is an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon.  He received a Master in Applied Theology from the University of Birmingham and has served the PCC in various capacities including Parish Pastor, Direct Partnership Secretary, and Presbyterial Secretary. He became the sixth Moderator of the PCC in 2014 and was re-elected to a second term in 2019. Guerline Jozef , President, The Haitian Bridge Alliance The Haitian Bridge Alliance was formed by organizations & community activists who came together to help build a solid infrastructure for a Haitian community in California.  In more recent years their work has expanded to include Black immigrants from Africa, including Cameroonians, advocating to end their detention. The Reverend Dr. James Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Rev. Nelson has served as Stated Clerk since 2016. Having served as the director of the PC(USA) Office of Public Witness in Washington, D.C., for six years, he is acutely aware of the need for the whole church to become engaged in the pursuit of justice for all. J. Herbert, as he is commonly known, is a pastor at heart. He served two congregations in his twenty-four years in parish ministry.