{"id":23174,"date":"2016-05-01T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T13:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=23174"},"modified":"2019-07-10T13:32:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T13:32:55","slug":"forgotten-people-former-liberian-refugees-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/forgotten-people-former-liberian-refugees-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten people: former Liberian refugees in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"book_article__abstract\">\n<p>By Naohiko Omata<\/p>\n<p><em>More than three years after the cessation of refugee status for Liberian refugees,\u00a0<\/em><em>the viability of the ECOWAS integration scheme implemented as a solution for\u00a0<\/em><em>those Liberians<\/em><em>\u00a0who continued to stay in Ghana is seen to be limited<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"book_article__body\">\n<p>Although exile can be interminably protracted, refugee status is not granted permanently. According to the 1951 Refugee Convention, when the circumstances under which people were recognised as refugees no longer exist (the premise of \u2018ceased circumstances\u2019), the Cessation Clause may be invoked while they are still in a country of asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Through this process thousands of Liberian refugees in Ghana saw the end of their refugee status in 2012, after which UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) brought in an integration scheme through the freedom of movement protocol of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as a \u2018sub-regional solution\u2019 for Liberians who remained in exile.<\/p>\n<p>Download from FM Review:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmreview.org\/solutions\/omata\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.fmreview.org\/solutions\/omata<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Naohiko Omata More than three years after the cessation of refugee status for Liberian refugees,\u00a0the viability of the ECOWAS integration scheme implemented as a solution for\u00a0those Liberians\u00a0who continued to stay in Ghana is seen to be limited. Although exile can be interminably protracted, refugee status is not granted permanently. According to the 1951 Refugee [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-ghana","region-liberia","type-academic-articles","item-year-395","item-theme-nationality-and-refugees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23175,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23174\/revisions\/23175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}