El Aaiun (Occupied Territories), October 10, 2011 (SPS) - Saharawi graduates, Idriss Sid'Ahmed Dembar Abdel Wahab, was denied the right to work by the Moroccan authorities due to political positions of his family, which refused the burial of his brother Saeed Dembar, assassinated last December by a Moroccan police officer in occupied El Aaiun, according to Sahrawi judicial source.
Midrand (South Africa), October 10, 2011 (SPS) - The Pan-African Parliamentarians met in Midrand (Johannesburg) at the Fifth Ordinary Session of the Second Pan-African Parliament (PAP)called on the African Union (AU) so that it makes decisions to end the colonization of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) by Morocco.
London, October 10, 2011 (SPS) Western Sahara Campaign in Britain, is calling to sign a petition urging the UN to protect human rights in Dakhla and investigate the events in this city, said Saturday in London Mr. Ken Ritchie, Executive Member of the organization.
Shaheed El Hafed, October 10, 2011 (SPS) - The Council of Ministers denounced Saturday the "repressive" practices perpetrated by Moroccan forces and settlers against Sahrawi defenseless citizens in the occupied city of Dakhla since September 25, said a statement sanctioning a meeting of the Council of Ministers.
The Council reiterated the need for an "urgent" intervention of the UN to protect lives and properties of Saharawi citizens in the city, in order to "avoid the worst," the statement added.
New York (UN), October 8, 2011 (SPS) – Following is the full text of the statement made by the Polisario Front Representative in the United Nations, Mr. Boukhari Ahmed, during the session of the UN Fourth Committee, in charge of special political issues and decolonization in New York:
“Madame President, Honourable delegates
Colonialism has not yet been eliminated from Africa. The proof of this is the case of my country, Western Sahara, the last African colony on the agenda of this Committee.
New York, October 7, 2011 - Uganda has urged the United Nations to assume its full responsibility to complete the decolonization process in Western Sahara, during the session of the UN Fourth Committee, in charge of special political issues and decolonization in New York.
New York, October 7, 2011 - The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has expressed support to the self-determination and independence of Western Sahara, during the session of the UN Fourth Committee, in charge of special political issues and decolonization in New York.
New York, October 7, 2011 (SPS) - Nigeria has called on the United Nations to place a mechanism for the independence of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), during the session of the UN Fourth Committee, in charge of special political issues and decolonization in New York.
Nigeria's permanent ambassador to UN Augustine Ugochukwu Nwosa called on the United Nations “to set in motion the machinery for the independence of Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic without further delay under the auspices and supervision of the United Nations.”
Brussels, October 7, 2011 (SPS) - The Intergroup Peace for Sahrawi People in the European Parliament has urged the European Parliament to send a fact-finding mission to investigate the crimes committed recently by Morocco against the Saharawi people in the occupied city of Dakhla, Western Sahara.
Brussels, October 7, 2011 (SPS) - The Polisario Front Representation in Europe has condemned the continuing attacks on the Sahrawi civilian population in the southern occupied Western Sahara of Dakhla (formerly Villacisneros), in a statement released by the Representation.
Brussels, October 7, 2011 (SPS) - The Polisario Front Representation in Europe has condemned the continuing attacks on the Sahrawi civilian population in the southern occupied Western Sahara of Dakhla (formerly Villacisneros), in a statement released by the Representation.
Melbourne, Oct 6, 2011 (SPS) -The Polisario Front representative to Australia, Kamal Fadel, underlined that there is a human tragedy taking place in the occupied areas of Western Sahara as a result of Moroccan gross human rights violations, stressing the necessity to the inclusion of human rights monitoring in the UN mandate (MINORSO).
United Nations (New York), Oct 6, 2011 (SPS)- Former President of Basque, Juan Jose Ibarretxe, requested Wednesday the UN General Assembly's decolonization committee to assure that the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination would be scrupulously and honestly respected.
Melbourne, Oct 6, 2011 (SPS) - The Australian lawyer , Tim Roberston, said on Wednesday that the pillage of Saharawi natural resources is a crime of plunder outlawed by Geneva conventions, highlighting the role of Australian companies in looting the natural resources of occupied Western Sahara.
Mr. Roberston was speaking during an event hosted by The Australian Institute of International Affairs in Melbourne on the issue of Western Sahara under the title: Western Sahara and its Phosphate Rock: is Australia in a Hard Place?
United Nations (New York), Oct 6, 2011 (SPS) -The Spanish Oscar-winning actor, Javier Bardem, has urged Tuesday the international community to put an end to the human rights abuses in the territories of Western Sahara which is currently occupied by Morocco, in address before the UN General Assembly's decolonization committee.
Below is the full text of Bardem’s address
Ladies and gentlemen:
Tenerife (Canary Isles), Oct 6, 2011 (SPS) - At least 18 Saharawi activists and Spanish sympathizers staged Wednesday in a mass protest in the waters of the fishing dock at the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife to protest the theft of Saharawi sand being unloaded from occupied El Aaiun and stored in facilities of the port of Santa Cruz, Tenerife.
The participants in this protest displayed a banner that exceeds 15 feet in the water in front of the boat that departed from the port of occupied El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara.
Midrand (South Africa), Oct 6, 2011 (SPS) - The Pan-African Parliament debated and adopted on Thursday two fact-finding mission reports on the situation in Cote d’Ivoire and Western Sahara.
Presenting the report on Western Sahara, MP Hon. Juliana Kantengwa from Rwanda said that they have observed that Moroccan human rights abuses and violations in the occupied territories of Western Sahara were reported to be continuing unabated,” adding “there was a complete media blackout imposed on the Saharawi people.”
United Nations (New York), Oct 5, 2011 (SPS) - Many countries, participating in the UN Fourth Committee session, have reiterated solid support to the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and to the efforts of the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Western Sahara, Mr. Christopher Ross.
Santiago de Chile, Oct 5, 2011 (SPS) - The Saharawi Ambassador on a mission to Chile, Mr. Zrug Larousi, received Monday by the President of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Chile's Lower House, Mr. Carlos Abel Jarpa, according to the SADR Embassy on mission to Chile.
During the meeting, the Saharawi diplomat briefed his interlocutor about the latest developments on the Saharawi cause, in particular the latest tragic events in the occupied city of Dakhla.
Dusseldorf (Germany), Oct 5, 2011 (SPS) - The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (EJDM) called Tuesday on Morocco to respect the civil rights of the Saharawis and accept their peaceful means of protest, expressing its deep concern on the heinous repression by the Moroccan occupation forces against a peaceful protest recently held in the Saharawi occupied city of Dakhla, according to a statement of the Association.