A Critical Analysis of the Legal and Institutional Challenges in the Fight against Human Trafficking in Cameroon

The growing number of State Parties to the United Nations Trafficking Protocol is an indication of a positive political will of member States to combat human trafficking in the globe. However, there are quite a number of challenges hampering the effective combat against human trafficking in Cameroon. These challenges include but are not limited too; assessing the scope of the problem of trafficking, lack of awareness, poor victim identification, lack of collaboration between stakeholders, limited access to justice among others. In this vein; the paper seeks to analyze the legal and institutional challenges in the fight against human trafficking in Cameroon. The methodology employed in this article is purely doctrinal which is based on both primary and secondary data which enable us to unravel these challenges. The paper concludes with some robust recommendations which if effectively implemented and enforced will go a long way to remedied these obstacles impeding the fight against human trafficking particularly in Cameroon and the world at large.