Washington, Nov 7, 2013 (SPS) - Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights has called on the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, to put the Moroccan Government’s human rights record at the top of the U.S. government’s diplomatic priority, asking him to urge, during his visit to Morocco, Moroccan government to accept a human rights mandate for MINURSO.
Brussels, Nov 7, 2013 (SPS) - The Spanish member of the European Parliament Mr. Raül Romeva said that the EU-Morocco’s fisheries agreement is illegal because it violates international law, highlighting that Morocco seeks to gain “European political support” to its occupation of Western Sahara.
Algiers, Nov 7, 2013 (SPS) - The Spokesperson of the Tunisian Committee to support the Saharawi people Ms. Monia Bousselmi indicated Thursday that the Saharawis in the occupied Western Sahara are subject to many violations, stressing the need extend the mandate of the MINURSO to include the monitoring of human rights.
Accra, Nov 7, 2013 (SPS) - The Socialist Forum of Ghana (SFG) transmitted Monday a declaration of protest to Moroccan Embassy in Accra, capital of Ghana, over the colonial occupation of Western Sahara.
Over 200 Ghanaians, including trade unionists, politicians, journalists, parliamentarians and academics signed this declaration.
“It is our very strong conviction that the continued occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco has no basis in international law and is morally unacceptable,” it indicated.
Brussels, Nov 6, 2013 (SPS) - “Given the opinions and resolutions of the European Parliament and United Nations, being violated in the Western Sahara by Morocco, European Union’s fisheries agreement with Morocco lacks legality,” said Ms. Isabella Lövin, Swedish member of the European Parliament.
Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Nov 6, 2013 (SPS) - Saharawi government has denounced the “language of intransigence, repression and plundering of Western Sahara natural resources” demonstrated by the Moroccan King in his speech, delivered hours ago.
In a statement issued by the Ministry of Information, Saharawi Government said that the speech of the Moroccan King showed “an explicit will by Morocco to continue ignoring the efforts of the United Nations for the decolonization of the last colony in Africa, Western Sahara.”
Washington, Nov 6, 2013 (SPS) - The US newspaper Huffington Post advocated the right to self-determination in Western Sahara and stressed that Morocco is “illegally occupying” the Sahrawi territories.
“The last colony in Africa : The forgotten state ’’ is the title of an article published Tuesday by Huffington Post which emphasized on need for a mechanism for monitoring human rights in the region.
“This state is called the Western Sahara and its inhabitants are called Saharawi people,” the newspaper stated.
Bir Lehlou (liberated territories), Nov 6, 2013 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, called, in a congratulatory letter addressed Monday to the Algerian President on the Hijri New Year, on the Moroccan people to resort to prudence, wisdom and the respect for international legitimacy.
Lima, Nov 6, 2013 (SPS) - A Saharawi delegation, led by the Minister Delegate for Latin America Mr. Hash Ahmed, received Tuesday at the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the Deputy FM Mr. Fernando Rojas, according to a statement issued Tuesday.
The two sides discussed the latest developments on the question of Western Sahara, UN settlement plan, and the bilateral relation between the two countries, said the source.
Algiers, Nov 5, 2013 (SPS) - Secretary General of the Pan African Federation of African Union Associations and Clubs, Tanga Abdou Fulgence Kabouri, said Tuesday that Morocco is committing “grave violations” of human rights against the Sahrawis in the occupied territories, describing the situation prevailing in the occupied Western Sahara as “the unbearable.”
Brussels, Nov 5, 2013 (SPS) - The request to extend the mandate of MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) to include humans rights monitoring in Western Sahara is becoming more and more an “international issue” as the situation is “extremely serious and highly sensitive” in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, the Saharawi Minister Delegate for Europe, Mr. Mohamed Sidati, said Monday.
Boujdour (refugee camps), Nov 5, 2013 (SPS) - The Saharawi Art School “the School of the Martyr Salek Moulud Sidi” inaugurated today evening in the Wilaya of Boujdour, Saharawi refugee camps.
The inauguration ceremony was overseen by the Saharawi Minister of Culture Ms. Khadija Hamdi, and attended by the participants of ARTifariti.
Boujdour (refugee camps), Nov 5, 2013 (SPS) - The U.S. Professor of Fine Arts at New York University and President of the Popular Committee of Solidarity with the Saharawi People, Gobin, indicated Tuesday from the Saharawi refugee camps that art is a mean to defend human rights.
In a lecture presented on the sidelines of the VII International Encounters of Art and Human Rights in Western Sahara, the U.S Professor said that the message of art is “more eloquent” than political discourse.
Algiers, Nov 5, 2013 (SPS) - Secretary General of the Union of Youth of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (UJSARIO), Mousa Salma, called Tuesday from Algiers on the Moroccan regime to “comply with international law and to enable the Saharawi people to exercise their right to self-determination.”
Washington, Nov 5, 2013 (SPS) - The U.S. weekly magazine “The Nation” published Monday a lengthy article about the forgotten conflict of Western Sahara, shedding the light on the reality in the Saharawi refugee camps and the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Nov 5, 2013 (SPS) - Bureau of the National Secretariat of the Frente Polisario said that any agreement including the areas or territorial waters of Western Sahara is “an unethical contribution” to support Moroccan occupation, adding that such act would make the European nations involved “shamefully” in the looting of the wealth of an unarmed and oppressed people.
Oslo, Nov 5, 2013 (SPS) - The Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara has reaffirmed its support to the struggle of the Saharawis people, in a ceremony organized on Monday in Oslo, capital of Norway, to mark its 20th anniversary.
The ceremony was attended by memebers of the Committee, as well as Norwegian parliamentarians, politicians and civil society activists.
London November 4, 2013 (SPS) - Human rights organization “ Adala UK ” expressed its concern Monday, following the serious deterioration in health of Sahrawi political prisoner Laroussi Abdeljalil Lemghaimed.
The Sahrawi prisoner’s health, detained in the prison of Salé, “has worsened considerably these days, because of the mistreatment meted out by the Moroccan authorities to Sahrawi prisoners,” the NGO’s branch, based in the Great Britain, said, underlining that Abdeljalil’s case requires to be taken care in a hospital with appropriate equipment.
Algiers, November 4, 2013 (SPS) - Morocco’s schemes against Algeria show "uncontrolled nervousness to create a diversion" about an "essential" issue, namely decolonization in Western Sahara, said Mohamed Sidati, the Saharawi delegate minister for Europe.
Sidati added that Morocco led an anachronistic and hackneyed diplomacy by seeking, at all costs, to involve Algeria in Western Sahara conflict. "The conflict is between two parties, namely the Polisario Front, as the legitimate representative of the Saharawi people, and Morocco."
Brussels, November 4, 2013 (SPS) - President of the Coordination of European Committees and Associations for Support of the People of Western Sahara (EUCOCO) Pierre Galand said Monday that Charles Tannock’s report, adopted recently by the European Parliament (EP), is “very clear” on the violation of human rights in the Sahrawi occupied territories and on the despoiling of Western Sahara’s natural resources.