[SPS]Chahid Al Hafed -President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz has deplored the "violent attack" carried out Tuesday evening by Moroccan repression forces against Saharawi citizens in the occupied city of El Aaiun, asking the UN to take "urgent steps" to protect the Saharawi people....
[SPS]Addis Ababa -The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has welcomed the report issued by the UN Secretary General on the situation concerning Western Sahara....
[UNHCR]Following many months of suspension, family visit flights under the UNHCR's Confidence Building Measures programme resumed yesterday. People from Dakhla city in Western Sahara Territory and from the refugee camps in near Tindouf, Algeria were brought together with a total of 192 people taking part in the visits....
[African Union]The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, welcomes the report issued by the United Nations (UN) Secretary General on the situation concerning Western Sahara, on 10 April 2014. The report covers a wide range of issues, including the consultations undertaken by the Secretary-General's Personal Envoy with the Parties to the conflict, namely...
[SPS]El Aaiun -Moroccan occupying forces heinously attacked Tuesday night the Saharawi demonstrators in the occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara, leaving a heavy toll of victims, according to preliminary reports....
[SPS]Washington -Human Rights Watch has urged the Security Council of the United Nations to extend the mandate of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to incorporate human rights monitoring, welcoming the call made by Ban Ki-moon in his report on the situation in Western Sahara released April 10, 2014 for "sustained, independent and impartial monitoring of human rights....
[SPS]Brussels -In anticipation of the United Nations Security Council meeting on Western Sahara on 17th April, 115 organizations, of which Saharawi organizations and international ONGs, from 21 countries around the world have issued a joint letter calling on the UN Security Council to agree an expansion of the current MINURSO mandate to include the monitoring and protection of the human rights in Western...
[SPS]Chahid Al Hafed -Saharawi Students Union (UESARIO) organized Monday the 3rd edition of the annual demonstration MINURSO MANDATE, aimed at calling on the Security Council to extend the UN mission in Western Sahara to include human rights and natural resources plunder's monitoring....
[SPS]Algiers -Algeria has welcomed "with satisfaction" UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's report on Western Sahara, presented to the Security Council, said Monday the Algerian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdelaziz Benali Cherif....
[SPS]Birlehlu (Liberated Territories) April 14, 2014 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mohamed Abdelaziz sent Monday an "urgent" letter to the UN Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon....
[SPS]Birlehlu (Liberated Territories) April 14, 2014 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, affirmed that bringing justice, peace and stability requires "firmness, strictness and clarity " from the United Nations to "impose respect of its charter and resolutions," warning that Morocco wanted the UN to abandon its "responsibility in the decolonization...
[SPS]Algiers -Amnesty International has urged the United Nations Security Council to extend the mandate of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to include human rights monitoring....
[SPS]Copenhagen -The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) has noted that since the Moroccan regime has, since 30 April 2013's Security Council resolution extending MINURSO's mandate, continued to violate human rights Western Sahara....
[SPS]Washington -The U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Mr. William V. Roebuck has expressed his country's support to the United Nations-led efforts aimed at finding "a peaceful, sustainable and mutually-agreed solution" to the Western Sahara conflict....
[SPS]New York -The Secretary General of the United Nations Mr. Ban Ki-moon U.N. called Thursday for "sustained" human rights monitoring in the territory Western Sahara, occupied by Morocco since 1975, warning against unfair exploitation of the territory's natural resources....
[SPS]N'djamena -Saharawi Coordinator with the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) Mr. Mhamed Khaddad received Thursday in N'Djamena by H.E. Mr. Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet, prime minister of the Republic of Chad....
[VOA]Access to improved drinking water and sanitation is extremely uneven within individual countries in sub-Saharan Africa. That's according to a new report by researchers with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. The report, published in the journal PLoS Medicine, is the first study looking at access within individual countries in the African region....
[AI London]The UN Security Council must expand the mandate of its peacekeeping force in Western Sahara to include sustained human rights monitoring, said Amnesty International, amid clampdowns on peaceful protests and reports of activists tortured in custody during the past year....
[RFK Center]Washington, DC -Kerry Kennedy, President of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center), and Santiago A. Canton, Director of RFK Partners for Human Rights, applaud the Italian Senate's approved motion urging the Italian government to support a human rights monitoring component in the renewal of the United Nations Security Council's peacekeeping mission in Western...
[SPS]Minnesota -The Saharawi activist and defender of human rights Mrs. Aminatou Haidar has arrived in the State of Minnesota, as part of her visit to the U.S. to aware about Morocco's human rights violations in Western Sahara....