press release
Update - UNHCR takes position on recent refugee crisis in Ghana
This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's Palais des Nations press briefing in Geneva.
Following a deportation on Sunday 23 March of 16 Liberians by the Ghanaian authorities - 13 of them registered with UNHCR as refugees – we have urged Ghana to cease any further forcible removals.
Buduburam Refugee Concerns International calls for Action to Protect the Human Rights of Refugees in Ghana; Crisis Escalating
This morning, Saturday March 22, reports are trickling in that an armed Ghanaian police force raided the Buduburam refugee settlement, arresting Liberian men, in an apparently random manner. The police allegedly beat young men playing basketball with batons, and raided the camp clinic, taking away people waiting for treatment. Men were taken from their homes - we have spoken to people who are currently hiding in the bush, locked into their houses, for fear of arrest by the Ghanaian authorities.
