September 2013

Seixal (Portugal), Sept 8, 2013 (SPS) - Member of the Political Commission of the Central Committee of Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) Mr. Carlos Gonçalves has reaffirmed solidarity and commitment to the just cause of the Saharawi people and to defend their legitimate rights before Portuguese and international institutions, during a meeting with the Saharawi delegation attending the 37th PCP Festival, the main political-cultural event in the country, reported Polisario representation in Portugal.

Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Sept 8, 2013 (SPS) - Prime Minister Mr. Abdelkader Taleb Omar oversaw Saturday a meeting of the coordination and follow-up mechanism for the youth file, as part of the government’s periodic assessment and follow-up to this file.


The meeting examined the practical aspects of Youth Employment Programme through micro credits, whose first part will be delivered to young graduates of professional training centers and institutes.

Tunis, Sept 7, 2013 (SPS) - Secretary General of the Saharawi Workers Union (UGTSARIO) Mr. Mohamed Sheikh Mohamed Lehbib is taking part at the meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Maghreb-Mashreq Social Forum, held on September 6th, 7th and 8th, 2013 in Tunis, according to a source of the Saharawi delegation.

Ait Melloul (Morocco), Sept 7, 2013 (SPS) - The Saharawi political prisoner Omar Daoudi launched yesterday, Friday, an open hunger strike in the Moroccan Ait Melloul’s local prison, according to a human rights source.


Family of the detainee reported that her son entered into this hunger strike as a protest to the degrading ill-treatment practices he suffers inside the prison, the same source said.

El Aaiun (occupied territories), Sept 7, 2013 (SPS) - The Saharawi political prisoner Ajwad Farraha continues, for the eighth consecutive day, his open hunger strike in the Moroccan Lekhal’s prison in the occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara, said a source of the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Diaspora.


The state of health of the Saharawi detainee Ajwad Farrah, 29 years, is now miserable after he stopped water and sugar intake, said the source.

Brussels, Sept 7, 2013 (SPS) - The Committee of Support to the Saharawi People in Belgium has condemned the EU-Morocco fishing agreement, signed at the end of last July, which includes Western Sahara’s territorial waters, describing it as “a blatant breach” to international law and legitimacy, according to a statement of POLISARIO Office in Brussels.

Brussels, Sept 7, 2013 (SPS) - 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 forces against Saharawi women in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, informed Saharawi diplomatic sources.


In its report on women’s rights in the Sahel region and Western Sahara, ratified Wednesday, FEMM Committee highlighted “the important role played by Saharawi women within the Saharawi society.”

Pretoria, Sept 7, 2013 (SPS) - In collaboration with SADR embassy, the Southern African Liaison Office (SALO) organized Thursday a seminar on Western Sahara under the theme: “for achieving a continental and international consensus to support Saharawi cause”.


The seminar was presided over by Mr. Ebrahim Ebrahim, Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa.

Paris, Sept 7, 2013 (SPS) - Rapporteure of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Liliane Maury-Pasquier will head, by early October to Algeria for an information visit to help her to “complete” a report on the European Parliamentary contribution to the settlement of Western Sahara conflict, it was announced during a meeting on the matter in Paris.

Brussels, Sept 2, 2013 (SPS) - Western Sahara Resource Watch launched today, Monday, a report denouncing the “irresponsible comeback” of the French oil company Total’ in occupied Western Sahara, adding that this shows a “complete disregard of basic principles of corporate social responsibility.”


In a report published Monday, WSRW underlined that Total SA Company “carries out exploration in the territory despite the UN legal office stating it would be in violation of international law.”

Jalisco, Guadalajara (Mexico), Sept 2, 2013 (SPS) - The Saharawi Representative in Mexico Mr. Ahmed Mulay Ali paid a visit to the Municipal State of Jalisco, Mexico, in the period between 28 until 31 August 2013, where he was received by a number of distinguished political figures, according to SADR embassy.

Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Sept 1, 2013 (SPS) - 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 Saharawi people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination an independence.
 

El Aaiun (occupied territories), Sept 1, 2013 (SPS) - Moroccan occupation authorities have violently intervened against a peaceful sit-in organized by a group of unemployed Saharawis in Mecca Street in the occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara, according to a human rights source.