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| Grassroots Campaign to Safeguard Human Rights of Refugees in Ghana |
March 21, 2008 Kordiabe, Ghana: Over 600 Liberian refugee women and children are in their 5th day of detainment and face imminent deportation. Their crime? Free speech. The women had been holding a peaceful protest in the Buduburam refugee settlement, and, on Monday, March 17, in the early hours, a police armed with AK47s and tear gas came to arrest them while they were sleeping on the football field. The media has been rife with inaccurate and contradictory reports, making a clear assessment of the situation confusing at best. More » |
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 Over 500 Liberian refugee women have been arrested and bundled in more than six buses by heavily armed Police officers from the Ghana Police Service.
They've been taken to an unknown destination believed to be somewhere in Accra.
The women have been protesting at the Buduburam refugee camp in demand for better and improved repatriation package from the UNHCR.
Hundreds of women and children sit in an opened field on the refugee camp in the scorching sun and sometimes in the rain.
Refugee Women Protest Over welfare in Ghana |
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| OPINION : OUR HUMBLE APPEAL |
In PREVIOUS REPORTS, we highlighted the pitiable sanitation condition in the over populated Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana, West Africa. The camp at the end of 2003, housed 45,000 refugees, mainly women and children; and currently shelters over 35,000 refugees, according to a UNHCR report. More » |
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| BUDUBURAM SPOTLIGHT : Refugees Empowering Refugees To Rebuild |
Liberia is Africa’s oldest independent nation. It lies on the swell of the continent, between Sierra Leone and Cote d’Ivoire and forms part of the Mano River Union countries. Although Liberia was formally founded by freed American slaves in 1822, the vast majority of the population has always been indigenous Africans. More » |
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| Refugee Women Protest Over welfare in Ghana |
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A group of Liberian Women - Liberian Refugee Women for Refugee Concerns (LRWRC) are staging a protest on the field at the main entrance to the Buduburam Refugee Camp. The group said they would not stop until their demands are met by the government of Ghana and the UNHCR. They told UNHCR and the Ghana Refugee Board (GRB) that they don't want to be reintegrated into Ghanaian society. The women want resettlement to a third country of asylum or repatriation to Liberia with US$1,000 package per head. More » |
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Refugees Fetch Unsafe Water
By Hisenburg Q. Togba |
 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) established the Buduburam Refugee camp in Ghana on 3rd September 1990. Initially the camp had sheltered Liberians fleeing the Liberian bloody civil conflict which had killed over 200,000 people.
Prior to the UNHCR’s withdrawal of support to the refugees in 2000, the camp had benefited from the availability of pure drinking water, food supply, clothing and education on a large scale. Today, water is one of nature most important gifts to mankind - essential to life. A person's survival depends on the quest for water, let alone drinking.
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| MOPGEL Donates Football To Future Star |
Movement for the Promotion of Gender Equality in Liberia (MOPGEL) recently donated a football and a pump to the Future Star Football Club at the Buduburam Refugee Camp. The football was as well donated to MOPGEL Executive Director by his friend Klaua Frickhard, a German national based in Germany. More » |
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| UNHCR- Ghana Needs over US$11 Million For refugees reintegration |
Even though the United Nations Refugee Agency - UNHCR and its Ghana office are yet to conduct a survey regarding refugees’ reintegration, the agency has released its global appeal requesting over US $11 million for 2008/2009. This budget includes reintegration and report made available to the Equality Trumpet indicates that US$6,137,528 is needed for 2008 and US $5,032,326 is also needed for 2009 fiscal year. More » |
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| New Nursing School For Liberia Soon |
| Preparatory College of Health and Science (PRECOHS) established in 2000 by a group of Liberian medical practitioners will soon be established in Liberia. PRECOHS President, Ishmael P. Mcgill has informed the Equality Trumpet that there is a need to return home with the school. More » |
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Baby Born With Opened Abdomen
By Hisenburg Q. Togba |
 As record was being taken to know how many children born before Christmas day, nurses at the Wenniba hospital in Ghana recorded a baby that was born with open stomach.
Born living, a baby boy, according to a source at the hospital needed operation for survival for this reason; the case was referred to the St. Gregory Catholic Clinic at the Buduburam Refugee Camp since the mother is a refugee. More » |
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More Than 100 Journalist Killed In 2007 IN 2007
By Leah McBride Mensching |
 More than 100 journalists have been killed around the world in 2007, the World Association of Newspapers announced in its half-year report on world press freedom, published today.
One hundred and six journalists have been killed in the line of duty in 28 countries so far this year, with 45 of those killed in Iraq, where 150 members of the media have been killed since 2003. More » |
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Filthy Toilets Distressing Refugees
By Ojuku S. Kangar, Jr. |
 The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, in 2003 built twelve pit latrines for the use of 45,000 refugees living in the Buduburam Community to discourage the use of open fields for toilet purposes.
Although the UNHCR has a sanitation standard dictating one latrine per twenty people, and sanitation experts recommended additional latrines, the twelve were the only ones ever built.
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UNHCR Launches Avian Flu Campaign
By Wilmot Dweh |
 On November 12, 2007, in order to alert residents of the avian flu dangers, the UNHCR and the National Catholic Secretarial sponsored St. Gregory Catholic Clinic launched an awareness campaign at the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana. The five day campaign brought together more than 200 residents at Buduburam.
John Josiah Kwofie, National Catholic Secretariat assistant project coordinator, said that the sensitization campaign at Buduburam stemmed from a recent report indicating a dead bird in zone-6 of the community. More » |
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MOPGEL Gets More Donation
By Dorbor Marvie |
Three MOPGEL projects: Information Communication Technologies, Medical Health Care and Human Rights Education and Reporting received donations recently.
The human rights education and reporting, a project publishing the Equality Trumpet, received two digital cameras and a laptop on Oct 30 and Nov 3, 2007.
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Environmental Groups aid Sanitation for Buduburam
By Our Environmental Reporter |
 The financial and educational assistance of two environmental groups, Clean Up the World (CUW) and Earth Day Network (EDN), helped residents of the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana’s central region to understand the importance of improving their drainage and toilet system in the community.
The drainage and toilet system are a longstanding problem at Buduburam. Only two years ago, the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, built some pit latrines to help reduce the use of open fields and unfinished houses for toilets. More » |
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Help Save Abandoned Child
By Dorbor Marvie |
 Some of the root causes that lead to teenagers becoming mothers are peer pressure, poverty and lack of parental care. The Buduburam Refugee Community in Accra, Ghana is one of the communities experiencing this age old problem of teenage pregnancy, and it is on the increase here.
Most of the teen mothers abandon their babies due to lack of support from the community and the children’s fathers. One of these abandoned children was left at the St. Gregory Catholic Clinic on April 29, 2005. He was eleven months old.
The Clinic named him “Mark Johnson” and informed the Liberian Refugee Welfare Council about the child. The Council thereafter informed the Women’s Department to see who could help with the child, but nobody was willing. More » |
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MOPGEL Commissioned Volunteer Coordinator
By Our Reporter |
 The management of MOPGEL-Movement for the Promotion of Gender Equality in Liberia commissioned Yassein Shamout, a Canadian Medical Volunteer, as its International Volunteer Coordinator in 2007.
MOPGEL Director, Hisenburg Q. Togba said, “The lack of income and free health services for the refugees makes it extremely difficult for most, if not all, to access health centers due to high fees charged for treatment. More » |
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A.G. Church Joins MOPGEL Education for All Campaign
By Our Reporter |
 The Bethel Assembly of God Church at the Buduburam Refugee Camp recently joined the Education for All Campaign, a project launched by MOPGEL.
The project, according to MOPGEL Program Assistant Dorbor Marvie, was launched in 2006 to help provide quality education to orphans, street kids and other disadvantaged children living within the Buduburam community. More » |
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