This article explores in an explicit manner the interface between human rights and international mining disputes in Cameroon’s extractive law in order to spotlight or identify the causes, stakes, challenges and possible ways forward in curbing human right violations in the extractive sector. This article focuses on the various pieces of extractive legislation in Cameroon and makes a comprehensive legal appraisal on how such extractive texts protect human rights either directlt or tacitly, arguing that the present extractive texts in force falls short of guaranteeing the rights of individuals engaged in the extractive industry. In consequence to this half-bake protection accorded by the mining, oil and gas laws with respect to human rights exigencies, it is a settled fact that human righs are increasingly violated in the extractive sector and this does not showcase a good image of the country at the international arena. This is because mining disputes are becoming rife and rampant. A fundamental recommendation to this legislative pitfall in the extractive sector is that, there is urgent need to revise some provisons of the extractive sector laws so that, it should integrate human rights issues in a holistic manner thereby significantly curbing mining disputes.