News & Reports
Monthly reports on torture prevention, OPCAT ratifications, UN treaty body sessions, and human rights documentation, sourced from OHCHR, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the Coalition monitoring work.
Ghana Offered a Safe Haven. What the July 31 Flight Met Instead
Ghana's foreign minister said on camera in September 2025 that his country was offering itself as a safe haven to West Africans deported by the United States, and that those who arrived could stay ninety days. Ten months later a flight landed in Accra carrying more than thirty people, every one of whom held a United States finding that they could not safely be returned home. Within a day, some of them were.
Before Ghana, Djibouti: What ICE’s Own Declaration Says About U.S. Third-Country Deportations
Four months before the deportation flights to Ghana, a court order stranded eight men on a United States naval base in Djibouti. What conditions were like there is not a matter of allegation. It is set out by the government itself, in a sworn declaration by a senior ICE official, and the Coalition publishes that declaration in full.
Federal Filing Details How U.S. Deportees Sent Through Ghana Were Returned to Countries Where Judges Found Risks of Torture
A sworn declaration filed in D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security describes two U.S. deportation flights to Ghana and alleges that people with CAT protection and withholding of removal were subsequently sent to countries where U.S. immigration judges had already found they faced persecution or torture.
11 West African Deportees Challenge Detention in Ghana After U.S. Third-Country Deportations
Eight reportedly received U.S. withholding of removal or Convention Against Torture protection before being deported to Ghana, raising questions about detention, third-country removal and non-refoulement.