The International Film Festival in the Western Desert (Fisahara) opened Friday in Madrid with the screening of Lajwad film, which has social and political dimensions of the Sahrawi society.

The International Film Festival in the Western Desert (Fisahara) opened Friday in Madrid with the screening of Lajwad film, which has social and political dimensions of the Sahrawi society.

This year's edition aims at highlighting three films that have won international awards since their inception in Saharawi refugee camps. The organizers hope to review the reality of the Saharawi people through the cinema window to attract a wide audience to support the Saharawi people.

In his speech, Saharawi Ambassador to Algeria Bushraya Hamudi Beyun, recalled Spain's historic responsibility towards the Sahrawi people and called on the Government of Mariano Rajoy to apply international law and to work for the organization of a referendum that would enable the Sahrawi people to exercise their right to self-determination and independence

The Mundubat organization organizes meetings of feminist economics schools in Vitoria, Bilbao and Amurrio

The Mundubat organization organizes meetings of feminist economics schools in Vitoria, Bilbao and Amurrio. Acts of the III meeting of the schools attended by women of all nationalities attending courses and the experience of empowerment and feminism decolonizador through different activities. 

This third meeting has had guests Ana María Martínez de Honduras on behalf of Mesoamerican in struggle for a dignified life and the UNMS represented by Jadiyetu El Mohtar, responsible for international relations. The meeting was marked by situations of discrimination as a result of the Patriarchate staging plays through the different realities of women.

Basque, Spanish, Argentine, Honduran, Pakistani and Sahrawi women has been able to share experiences and realities from different views in a common struggle for equality and empowerment.

For Sahrawi women has been also an opportunity 44 anniversary on 20 may, the outbreak of the armed struggle in fight for freedom and independence. 

Western Sahara remains a "Non-Self-Governing Territories"

Brussels, May 10, 2017 (Western Sahara status remains that of a "non-self-governing territories," said EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini, reiterating the EU support to the efforts of the UN Secretary-General in order to reach a solution that will allow "the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara."

"Western Sahara is included on the UN list of non-self-governing territories,” she wrote in her reply, on behalf of the European Commission, to the MEPs who questioned her about the Moroccan military presence in Western Sahara.

The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy recalled, in this respect, that "the final status of Western Sahara continues to be the subject of a negotiation process under the aegis of the United Nations."

It reaffirmed the EU's support for the efforts of the UN Secretary-General to achieve "a just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution, which will enable the people of Western Sahara to exercise self-determination, under the objectives of the United Nations Charter.” SPS