Loi n°2023/009 du 25 juillet 2023 portant charte de protection des enfants en ligne au Cameroun

Cameroon's charter for the protection of children online was adopted 25 July 2023. The charter defines a child as any person under 18 (article 3). It places internet access providers, content providers, information-system operators, social-network promoters, online-advertising professionals, and audiovisual-communication operators under the same child-protection duties as public authorities (articles 11 to 14).

A general duty requires these actors to stop indexing content that harms a child's dignity and to report it to the competent authorities, and a specific duty requires making available to minor users guides to good practice in cyberspace and to dangerous activities. A private actor in breach is first given formal notice by the body regulating telecommunications to come into compliance within 15 days.

Only after that deadline passes unmet may the regulator pronounce administrative sanctions, which are essentially financial, while criminal sanctions range from fines through imprisonment to professional prohibitions and temporary closures. Criminal sanctions are defined from article 28 onward.