Algiers ,April16,2013(SPS) - The international conference in support of Sahrawi women’s resistance will be held on April 18 to 21 at the same time in Algiers and in the Sahrawi refugee camps, Secretary General of Sahrawi women Association Fatima Al-Mahdi announced Monday in Algiers.
This conference, the third after that held in 2010 and 2011, will be organized under the theme “Situation and right of Sahrawi women to resist,” Al-Mahdi told a press conference at the Sahrawi Embassy in Algiers.
This meeting, which will bring together representatives of women’s organizations from the five continents, aims at highlighting the “resistance and suffering” of Sahrawi women in the refugee camps, Al-Mahdi said.
During this conference, twining agreements between the Sahrawi women associations and others from around the world will be signed with the objective of “breaking the wall of silence imposed on the Sahrawi people,” she added.(SPS)
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