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Africa > Cameroon > Crime

> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 2.91 % Time series [13th of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 5.23 % Time series [11th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights 37.28 % Time series [15th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 1.16 % Time series [11th of 39]
Prisoners 20,000 prisoners [44th of 168]
Prisoners > Per capita 129 per 100,000 people [66th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 49.2% [37th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 296.3% [2nd of 128]
Software piracy rate 84% [14th of 107]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Cameroon is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation; most victims are children trafficked within country, with girls primarily trafficked for domestic servitude and sexual exploitation; both boys and girls are also trafficked within Cameroon for forced labor in sweatshops, bars, restaurants, and on tea and cocoa plantations; children are trafficked into Cameroon from neighboring states for forced labor in agriculture, fishing, street vending, and spare-parts shops; Cameroon is a transit country for children trafficked between Gabon and Nigeria, and from Nigeria to Saudi Arabia; it is a source country for women transported by sex-trafficking rings to Europe
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Cameroon is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking in 2007, particularly in terms of efforts to prosecute and convict trafficking offenders; while Cameroon reported some arrests of traffickers, none of them were prosecuted or punished; the government does not identify trafficking victims among vulnerable populations nor does it monitor the number of victims it intercepts
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 43.6 [19th of 143]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets Ray Fisman Edward Miguel Columbia University and NBER University of California, Berkeley and NBER 2006

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Cameroon, Republic of Cameroon

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