Boujdour (Sahrawi refugee camp)August29,2012(SPS) – Head of the Robert-Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Kerry Kennedy, who leads a delegation made up of international human rights defense organizations hailed Wednesday in the Wilaya of Boujdour "Sahrawi women determination and contribution", notably in the organization of everyday life in refugee camps.
"It is moving to see women who have too terrible stories on human rights violations committed against them or their relatives (in the occupied territories of Western Sahara) does not admit or broken and remain determined to build the institutions of their society and organize their lives in refugee camps, especially in the areas of education and health," said Kennedy during a meeting with Sahrawi women.
She announced that she agreed during her stay in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, with the Saharawi activist Aminatu Haidar, to collect the testimonies of women who suffered from violations of human rights to which they are mentioned in mission final report.
In this sense, she urged the concerned women to send their testimony as soon as possible to Haidar. In addition, Kennedy said her center annually awards prize to a personality that defends human rights, noting that this distinction was granted a few years ago to Haidar.
"Haidar is a hero to all of us ," she said.
"It is a great honor for us to receive the delegation of Robert Kennedy Centre", said for her part the Secretary General of the Sahrawi women Union, Fatma El Mahdi, who recalled the support provided by this organization to Haidar during her hunger strike in Lanzarote (Spain) in November 2009.(SPS)
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