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Liberia: Wolpnet Defends Women
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The Analyst (Monrovia)
28 March 2008
Posted to the web 28 March 2008
Women of Liberia Peace Network (WOLPNET), has put up enough defense for Liberian women, saying that they are not troublemakers. The statement comes against the backdrop of the melee that erupted between Liberian female refugees and Ghanaian security officers, which led to several women being arrested and detained.
The President of WOLNET, Una Thompson dismissed allegation that the female refugees caused the trouble when they undressed themselves in public during their sit-in-protest.
The former Deputy Foreign Minister for Administration in the then transitional government stressed that her fellow country women, despite being refugees could never engage into trouble, noting that they are not troublemakers.
She urged the Ghana to treat the refugee with respect and caution. Over 600 refugees, most of them women were picked up from their camp and taken to unknown areas by the Ghanaian Government through its security personnel who have accused the Liberian refugees of engaging into trouble.
She stated that the government of Ghana should have handled the situation with care and not with disrespect without regard to womanhood. She noted that though the women are refugees, they equally have rights and they must be treated with respect and caution.
"And even if they went wrong, wherever they went wrong, there is a better way to discuss such mater instead of treating them with disrespect," Madam Thompson says.
At the same time, she is also calling on the United Nations High Commission to do everything in its reach to have the women back into the camp and reach a discussion with the refugees in handling their demand.
She said the Liberian refugees have the rights to make choice in respect to those who want to come home and those who want to stay and be integrated into the Ghanaian society. She praised the Ellen-led government for at least dispatching delegation to Ghana to seeking means in bringing the situation under a lasting control.
The refugees who left Liberia due to conflict are appealing to the UNHCR for resettlement into a third country or be given US$1,000 as resettlement package.
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Meanwhile, the US-based Universal Human Rights International has called on the Ghanaian government to release the Liberian refugees. The group reminded the Ghanaian government that peaceful demonstration is a right of all human beings and force repatriation is illegal under international laws.
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