Month April 2020

Geneva Support Group for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights in Western Sahara PRESS RELEASE World Press Freedom Day UNESCO 26 C / Resolution 4.3 (06/11/1991) In celebrating World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd, the Geneva Support Group for…

MOROCCO’S EFFORT TO LEGITIMIZE ITS OCCUPATION OF WESTERN SAHARA by Carmen Johns* Let it be said once more: expressing support for the Moroccan thesis is one thing. Official recognition of its claim to sovereignty over Western Sahara is very much…

World Food Programme – ALGIERS – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a first-time contribution of € 400,000 (US$ 452,000) from the Government of France (EU) to support Sahrawi refugee boys and girls in camps in Algeria. The…

PUSL.- The French NGO MRAP (Movement against racism and for Friendship between Peoples) sent a letter, dated 28th of April, to Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian alerting to the situation of Moroccan and Saharawi political prisoners in Morocco Minister. MRAP…

PUSL.- Sandra Pereira, MEP of the Portuguese Communist Party, addressed last December a written question to the European Commission about the expulsion of Isabel Lourenço, a Portuguese citizen and human rights activist,  from El Aaiun, Western Sahara by Moroccan occupation…

by Haddamin Moulud Said According to the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency, the Russian Government and Morocco are preparing to renew the fisheries agreement signed on March 15, 2016. The current agreement establishes the principles of cooperation between the Russian Federation…

PUSL.- Susana Seivane is the heiress of one of the most prestigious families in the world of bagpipers and bagpipe artisans in Galicia, the Seivane family. She began her musical career when she turned three years old. Hand in hand…

PUSL.- The International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger (OIAD) has asked the Agadir Bar Association, in Morocco to reexamine the enrollment request of Mohamed Hali, a Saharawi Lawyer. The request was rejected and the decision published last February 13th. According…

PUSL.- Maître Olfa Ouled, a French lawyer based in Paris who represents 18 of the Saharawi political prisoners known as Gdeim Izik Group, since 2016 is especially worried in face of the Pandemic with the fate of her clients. The…

PUSL.- On the occasion of the International Day for Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace, the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) recalls the continued postponement of the referendum on self-determination and the lack of respect for international humanitarian law and international…

PUSL.- Today, the Marrakesh appeal court has postponed the appeal trial of the young Saharawi Lahoucine Amaadour ((HUSEIN BRAHIM) who was sentenced to 12 years in prison on 26 November 2019. No new date was set for the appeal hearing.…

PUSl.- The various Saharawi communities in Europe are sending letters to the President of the UN General Assembly (Ambassador Tijjani Muhammad-Bande – Nigeria) repudiating the recent appointment of Ambassador Omar Hilale (Permanent Representative of Morocco to the UN) as co-facilitator…

PUSL.- Next Saturday, 25th of April, the Swedish NGO Solidarity Rising will host in its webinar series, Dr Yahia Zoubir who will be speaking on: France’s relationship with Morocco, the United States’ relationship with Israel and the role that outside…

PUSL.- According to statements by Sahrawi human rights activist Hmad Hammad, as the world confines itself and prevents movements in the face of the serious Covid-19 pandemic, groups of Moroccan settlers enter occupied Western Sahara with the permission of the…

CEBRAPAZ.- The Latin American and Caribbean articulation of solidarity entities with the Saharawi people launches a series of virtual seminars on the struggle for the liberation of Western Sahara, in Spanish – sessions in English are held by Solidarity Rising…

Budapest (Hungary) 17 April 2020 (SPS)- The World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) published a statement indicating its solidarity with the people of Western Shara, calling on the UN to assume its responsibility towards this occupied and partitioned nation to…

PUSL.- On Monday, April 13, 2020, the Golden Bonnie docked in the port of Santos in Brazil, carrying a cargo of phosphate from the occupied territories of Western Sahara, illegally extracted and exported by the Moroccan state company OCP. OCP…

PUSL.- The Geneva Support Group on the occasion of the recent appointment by the President of the UN General Assembly (Amb. Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande – Nigeria) of Amb. Omar Hilale (Permanent Representative of Morocco to the UN) as co-facilitator in…

PUSL.- Following the strict measures that the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) has declared since mid-March, namely the confinement of the inhabitants of the refugee camps, hygiene and disinfection measures and awareness and clarification campaigns, the Ministry of Education has…

PUSL.- According to information from the Ministry of Occupied Territories in Western Sahara in the past 24 hours, the Moroccan occupation state has exceptionally authorized a group of more than 25 people to enter El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara.…

PUSL.- Solidarity Rising is organizing an online seminar with Dr. Sidi Omar on the current situation of the UN peace process for Western Sahara and how the process of decolonization has been interfered with by outside powers. He will also…