London, March 4, 2013 (SPS) - The Western Sahara Campaign UK has declared that it joins others organizations, under Western Sahara Action Forum, in establishing an international body to monitor human rights and implement international law in Western Sahara, a source from POLISARIO representation in London told Monday SPS.
“Human rights violations continue unabated in Western Sahara. The UN mission in the territory, MINURSO, is the only UN mission in the world, established since 1980, that does not have the mandate to monitor human rights,” stated the ONG.
The NGO focused, in its monthly newsletter, on the trial of Gdeim Izik detainees and the unfair sentences pronounced against them by Moroccan martial court in Rabat.
Western Sahara Campaign UK asked the United Nations Security Council live up to its moral and legal responsibilities to protect the human rights of the people of the Western Sahara, calling on British people to join this campaign and to urge their government to support human rights monitoring mandate within MINURSO powers.
It also called on British people to write to their representative at Parliament as well as to the Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Department to sign on the recommendation 1113.
The monthly newsletter allocated large space for the positions of several human rights organizations and bodies, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, RFK Centre for Justice and Human Rights UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and others which condemned the trial of Gdeim Izik group.
The Campaign aims at lobbying the UK government and EU to generate political support to the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and to human rights in occupied Western Sahara. (SPS)
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