'Rights Violations Persist Against Sahrawis'
Several months after the UN Security Council decided not to send observers to Western Sahara, rights groups are reporting the "systematic violations" of the human rights of Sahrawi people by Moroccan security forces.
Some residents of the Western Sahara city of Dakhla.
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Western Sahara:
Western Sahara in Numbers
AlertNet, 26 September 2013
1975 - Morocco annexes Western Sahara after Spain ends its colonial rule and withdraws. The Polisario Front guerrilla movement demands independence for the roughly 500,000 Sahrawi… Read more »
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Western Sahara:
Saharawi Self-Determination Constitutes Incarnation to Democratic Practice in the Region, Says Saharawi Ambassador
SPS, 22 September 2013
Saharawi Ambassador in Nigeria Mr. Abbi Bacharaya Bachir said that the support to the self-determination of Western Sahara, in addition to its legitimate and legal nature,… Read more »
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Morocco:
Rights Group Calls for the Arrest Peretrators in Mass Grave Case
SPS, 14 September 2013
Amnesty International has urged that the perpetrators of the mass grave, discovered in Western Sahara by a Spanish forensic team, "should be brought to account to put a tangible… Read more »
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Morocco:
RFK Center Reports Ongoing Human Rights Violations in Western Sahara
SPS, 14 September 2013
The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center) has released a report, in which it expressed dissatisfaction at the relentless human rights violations… Read more »
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Western Sahara:
Femm Committee Condemns Moroccan Human Rights Abuses Against Saharawi Women
SPS, 7 September 2013
The European Parliament Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, known as FEMM Committee, has denounced the gross abuses of human rights perpetrated by Moroccan occupation… Read more »
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Morocco:
Council of Ministers Asks UN to Shoulder Responsibility Towards Decolonization of Western Sahara
SPS, 1 September 2013
The Council of Ministers has called on the Unite Nations Organization (UN) to shoulder its responsibilities vis-à-vis the decolonization of Western Sahara, by enabling the… Read more »
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Morocco:
European NGO Denounces "Serious" Violation of Human Rights in Western Sahara
SPS, 17 August 2013
Morocco "violates seriously human rights in its country and in the occupied territories" of Western Sahara, the Europe's Central and Eastern Alliance for Solidarity with the… Read more »
InFocus
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The UN is set to renew its MINURSO mandate in the Western Sahara to facilitate the Saharawi people's disire for self-determination in the face of Morocco's continued occupation of ... Read more »
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The dispute over the Western Sahara has lasted "far too long" , and parties should move swiftly into negotiations amid the rising threat of extremist elements in the Sahel region, ... Read more »