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Ghana: Information on Ghanaian asylum seekers throughout the world and human rights practices in Ghana

Publisher Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Author Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada
Publication Date 1 March 1990
Citation / Document Symbol GHA4514
Cite as Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Ghana: Information on Ghanaian asylum seekers throughout the world and human rights practices in Ghana, 1 March 1990, GHA4514, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6acaf9c.html [accessed 28 May 2023]
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Attached please find extracts from the following documents regarding the above topics:

The Public Tribunals in Ghana (July 1984), ( New York: Amnesty International USA, 1984).

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988, (Washington: U.S. Department of State, 1989), pp.134-142.

Amnesty International Report 1989, (New York: Amnesty International USA, 1989), pp.54-52.

Prof. Cees Flinterman for the International Commission of Jurists and Netherlands Committee for Human Rights, Human Rights in Ghana, (Utrecht: SIM, 1984), pp.22-47.

A chronology prepared by Mr. Abraham Turkson for the Baptist Refugee Aid Committee, and presented to the Refugee Status Advisory Committee on 7 April 1988.

Ghana, prepared for the Immigration Appeal Board in July 1987.

Responses to previous Information Requests Nos. GHA3735, GHA3780, GHA4109, and GHA4272.

Ghana: Overview, January 1989 and the Ghana: Country Profile, January 1990, prepared by the Immigration and Refugee Board Documentation Centre.

Various reports on Ghanaian asylum seekers from:

The BBC Summary of World Broadcasts - 7 February 1983, 9 February 1983, 10 February 1983, 11 February 1983, 1 July 1983, 2 June 1984, 7 November 1984, 5 February 1986, 22 July 1986, 27 February 1987.

The New York Times Company, 3 February 1983, 28 August 1986, 10 May 1987.

Reuters Ltd., 1 March 1983, 27 October 1984, 27 July 1986, 13 August 1987.

The Inter Press Service, 19 September 1986.

Various articles pertaining to the Ghanaian human rights situation, obtained from different sources.

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