Saturday, December 29, 2018

The National Union of Sahrawi women today participated in the closing ceremony of the first national chess tournament

The National Union of Sahrawi women today participated in the closing ceremony of the first national chess tournament under the supervision of the Ministry of youth and sports Sahrawi in the headquarters of the Union of the UNMS and in winners have been awarded.
The ceremony attended by the Minister of youth, the general secretariat of the UNMS, the President of the National Union of chess among others.

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

The 20 cultural Forum, which this year coincides with the national day of solidarity with the Mothers of the disappeared 15.

The Secretary general of the F.Polisario and President of the RASD, accompanied by Sahrawi authorities, in addition to the Executive of the UNMS headed by the general Secretary attended the 20 cultural Forum, which this year coincides with the national day of solidarity with the Mothers of the disappeared 15.


The Forum, under the theme: La Mujer Saharaui, authenticity, identity and distinction, is a space for debate and reflection on the role played and play the Sahrawi women in the consolidation of the State and the preservation of the culture and the Sahrawi identity. The speech of the Secretary general stressed the importance and the prominent place of Sahrawi women in a society struggling to grow contributing to the values and principles that set their struggle for freedom. The meeting was also attended by associations of civil society, including representatives of the Coordinating Committee of associations of Sahrawi women in the diaspora.

Monday, December 24, 2018

The President of the Sahrawi National Union of Chess, Hassina Salma gold medal

RASD gold medal in table tennis at the games in Africa.

Congratulations to the Sahrawi sport for this historic achievement, which showed a woman, the President of the national Sahrawi Union of chess, Hassina Salma, who has demonstrated that sport in the refugee camps is possible once again reach the podium despite the lack of possibilities and means. Hassana Selma is also the school volleyball team player on February 27.

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Ujsario International Secretary highlights the suffering of Sahrawi students in Moroccan universities

The Foreign Relations Officer of the Saharawi Youth Union, Hamdi Omar, highlighted in a series of meetings in the margins of his participation in Paris, at the International Solidarity Festival, the seriousness of the situation in which live Sahrawi students in Moroccan universities, unlike all the international charters.

During a meeting with the president of the French University Center for Western Sahara, Sébastien Boulay, Hamdi Omar recalled the racist policy practiced by the Moroccan occupation against Sahrawi students enrolled in Moroccan universities.

He cited, in this context, the various difficulties encountered by students, including incarceration campaigns and bodily violence they suffer because of their activities in the universities to make known the struggle of the Saharawi people for its independence and his freedom.
In this regard, Saharawi sources of information reported that the Foreign Relations Officer had informed his host of the latest developments of the Saharawi cause both internationally and regionally.
Hamdi Omar also mentioned the efforts made by the Saharawi government and its partners to raise the level of access of Saharawi students to higher education in different sectors and universities, as well as investment in youth in integrating them into different Sahrawi companies.
He also highlighted "the role of the Saharawi Youth Union" in encouraging young people and spreading the culture of volunteering, as well as support programs aimed at alleviating the despair experienced by Saharawi youth because of the UN Security Council's inability to put pressure on Morocco to engage in a UN process of decolonization with a view to reaching a final solution of the Saharawi cause.


Saturday, December 8, 2018

It is the League of Sahrawi women Aragon as a member of the Coordinating Committee of associations of Saharawi women in the Diaspora

It is the League of Sahrawi women Aragon as a member of the Coordinating Committee of associations of Saharawi women in the Diaspora. The meeting was held in Gijón with the presence of members of the Association of Saharan migrants, and in which elected the new Board of the League of Saharawi women in Aragon.

On the occasion of the day of disabled persons, the Association of Saharawi women in France participates in this event with different cultural activities

On the occasion of the day of disabled persons, the Association of Saharawi women in France participates in this event with different cultural activities as a member of the platform of associations of civil society in the town of Rosny Sur Sene.

The stand of the AFF made a photographic exhibition that reflects the life and the work of Sahrawi women and pre-colonial and contemporary culture.


The kitchen and craftsmanship emphasized on this occasion.

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Freed journalist Sahrawi Nazha Khalidi

Freed journalist Sahrawi Nazha Khalidi after being arrested by Moroccan security forces when it reported on the Moroccan military deployment in the occupied Saharan cities on the occasion of the negotiations that take place at Geneva from yesterday between the F.Polisario and Morocco.

Nazha was freed and confiscated his phone, which carried out the report, after hours of interrogation and humiliating treatment. The reporter is already in his house and has confirmed to the UNMS to continue with their reporting despite the abuses and the repression exercised by the Moroccan invasion on activists and reporters Sahrawis

Opportunity to undertake a new round for dialogue in the first quarter of 2019.

After two sessions at the table of dialogue in Geneva sponsored by the UN, between Morocco and the Frente Polisario, with Mauritania and Algeria as observers, it declared by parties as an opportunity to undertake a new round for  dialogue in the first quarter of 2019.

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

The reporter for RASDTV in occupied territories of Western Sahara, Nazha Khalidi, has been arrested and his phone confiscated by the Moroccan authorities of occupation

The reporter for RASDTV in occupied territories of Western Sahara, Nazha Khalidi, has been arrested and his phone confiscated by the Moroccan authorities of occupation, the Sahrawi women condemn once again the abuses and attacks against the civilian population Sahrawi and especially against women. Western Sahara reporter tried to cover the military siege that suffers the occupied city of el Aaiun, especially these days as a result of negotiations carried out between Morocco and the F.Polisario in Geneva

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

The Sahrawi women in Saharan cities occupied by the Moroccan occupying forces take to the streets on the eve of negotiations between the F.Polisario and Morocco

The Sahrawi women in Saharan cities occupied by the Moroccan occupying forces take to the streets on the eve of negotiations between the F.Polisario and Morocco scheduled for day 5 and 6 December in Geneva (Switzerland). The women take to the streets to express their rejection of the occupation and its complaint against the violence of human rights in the TT. OO. Women, youth and elders together in peaceful resistance against the oppressive regime of Moroccan.

Saturday, December 1, 2018

The Basque network of support to the Saharawi women in Sahrawi refugee camps develops a project based on the formation of responsible for communication in audiovisual

The Basque network of support to the Saharawi women in Sahrawi refugee camps develops a project based on the formation of responsible for communication in audiovisual theme to provide them with technical and theoretical skills in order to improve its work communication and dissemination, in other areas both women's homes of the UNMS. The course takes place in the Centre of information and culture of the National Union of Sahrawi Women.


Thursday, November 29, 2018

Constitutes the Preparatory Commission of the VIII Congress of the UNMS

 Constitutes the Preparatory Commission of the VIII Congress of the UNMS in provision of article 46 of the regulation, and following the meeting of the National Secretariat of the National Union of Sahrawi women. States constituted the Commission that technical subcommittees that will supervise preparations for the event which will take place from 23 to 25 of February 2019 in the Wilayas of Auserd is derived.
The Committee is composed of 35 women in the different representations of the UNMS and they are as follows:
Fátma Mehdi
Hasina Salma
Raabub Barca
Dih Chadad
Zahra Lula
Chaba Seini
Jadiyetu El Mohtar
Mariam Chej
Tichla Bechri
Tekber Ali Man
Enguia Salem
Suelma Beiruk
Mentu Did
Darjalha Jatri
Chaia Luali
Mamiha Chej
Baquita Mohamed Buchaab
Nura Banna Baali
Abeida Sidahmed
Sukeina Mohamed Laminate
Leila Salec
Mahyuba Mohamed Saleh
Mailemnin Said
Dumaha Mohamed Embarec
Maglaha Hamma
Embarca Abdu
Embarcalina Sluh
Jauda Sidi Mohamed
Rabab Lehbib
Daja Jerchi
Teba Emhamed
Tarba Dueidih
Elfen Mohamed Ahmed
Lamina Felwat
Galia Hamid

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Regular meeting of the Executive of the UNMS to prepare the planned of next Congress saharawi women -preparatory actions end of February 2019

Regular meeting of the Executive of the UNMS to prepare the agenda of the meeting of the National Secretary of the organization which will take place tomorrow, November 29 to evaluate the plan of action and the next Congress of the planned UNMS-preparatory actions end of February 2019.


Women to the front

 Women to the front,  is a film journalist and Director Lula Gomez, a vision of the reality of Colombian women involved in the peace process before, during and after the war, a vision that reels in real way the reality of a situation with many aspects, collateral damage, individual and collective situations reflecting the differential experiences.
 An extrapolated reality Saharauistambien women immersed in a double fight and a never-ending peace process.

 The event involving the UNMS, the collective of MujeresMigrantes in collaboration with AIETI and the Institute de la Mujer de Castilla la Mancha held yesterday 27 in the public library of the city of Cuenca, where is the exhibition of women leaders in the activism for peace and human rights.

Saturday, November 24, 2018

The Sahrawi women wish to express our unconditional solidarity with all the women of the world

On the occasion of November 25, declared by the United Nations "Day international's fight against violence and gender". the Sahrawi women wish to express our unconditional solidarity with all the women of the world who are victims of abuse who are murdered by the mere fact of being a woman or to defend their rights. As some Sahrawi women living under the illegal Moroccan occupation of our land and that has become the main target of repression with which you are attempting to stifle the Sahrawi resistance against occupation in the occupied cities women Western Sahara, we reject violence in all its manifestations.

In any conflict, women carry the brunt of war crimes, but in the Western Sahara case, women are not only the mere consideration to humiliate one side as it does the occupying Moroccan. Unlike what happens in the rest of the world the Sahrawi women we have distinguished us from the times of the colonization by our active role in the industrial struggle for Justice and freedom of our people.

The policy of terror and repression erected in system in the occupied areas, is the price that we are paying for have we not limited to a passive role in the interior of our homes and have become the engine of a struggle that has used the claim to Pacific FICA as main ammunition.


In Western Sahara, we have countless examples of struggle of our women who have sacrificed their lives and their families for the struggle of the scrupulous respect for human rights. Chilling testimonies of Sahrawi women, which passed through prisons and were kidnapped in the Moroccan Dungeon, suffering all kinds of torture and harassment, including the see how the lives of his own family is desgastaban in the same prison day after day until they die without be able to embrace his own, is a mere example of the courage and tenacity of the Sahrawi fighting heroines.


The Sahrawi resistance in occupied Western Sahara zones occupied by Morocco, in our major cities are by occupation forces Moroccan with its arsenal of weapons and material to military, which represents a dangerous situation of abuse and provocation that lasts for more than 43 years ago. A conflict that represents the biggest violation against a people and its women. He is representing the occupation is Moroccan and the inaction of the international community. The Sahrawi women condemn violence against women as well as all violence exercised against people for any reason.
Our struggle is peaceful and through it we demand our legitimate right to freedom and independence, and we call on UN to hold the referendum on self-determination which should solve this problem of decolonization and thus allow women once Add to building an egalitarian and equitable society away from the violence and repression. 

Monday, November 19, 2018

The Saharawi Republic participates in the second Conference of African organizations members of United Nations Social and Economic Council.

The Saharawi Republic participates in the second Conference of African organizations members of United Nations Social and Economic Council.

With the participation of a delegation of the Sahrawi Republic, the second Conference of African organizations, which is a member of the Economic Council and Social of the United Nations (ECOSOC) held today in Algiers under the theme "Africa involve for deal the immigration crisis".

The Conference, which will focus on issues of migration and development on the continent, is organized by the African Parliament, Civil society organizations, the National Association of youth exchange and the Agenda 2063 in Algiers. Fatma Mehdi, General Secretary of the National Union of Sahrawi women, participates in the framework of the delegation of the Saharawi Republic.

Sunday, November 18, 2018

43rd EUCOCO: Determination to continue supporting Western Sahara’s decolonization process

The European Coordinating Conference of Support to the Sahrawi People (EUCOCO) kicked off Friday in Madrid, in Spain, with the participation of about 400 personalities coming from the five continents, including parliamentarians and government’s representatives.

During the opening ceremony, the international delegations participating in this major solidarity event expressed their determination to continue supporting the decolonization process in Western Sahara, Africa’s last colony.

Several official and popular delegations committed to supporting the Sahrawi people’s fair struggle as well as developing and modernizing its working methods.

President of the European Coordinating Conference of Support to the Sahrawi People (EUCOCO) Pierre Galand pointed out that the Europeans should respect the Sahrawi people’s right to enjoy their natural resources and renounce the maneuvers to which resorted the European Commission with the Moroccan occupier to shirk the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), made in February 2018, and which voids any commercial agreement concluded with Morocco that could include the territorial waters and resources coming from occupied Western Sahara.

For her part, Algeria’s ambassador to Spain Taous Froukhi said that the importance of organizing a symposium in Madrid stems from the Spanish people’s commitment towards the Sahrawi people.

This event fuels our efforts to put an end to this occupation which harms our African continent since 1975 and which affects the inter-African cooperation and even the coordination between Europe and Africa,” said the diplomat.

Head of foreign affairs committee of the Algerian Parliament Abdelhamid Si Afif welcomed the creation of an international parliamentary network of support for the Sahrawi people’s struggle, which was approved in the coordination’s last seminar and which was created thanks to the efforts of the parliamentarians.

Si Afif expressed his satisfaction with the positive results obtained by the international parliamentary network of support for the Sahrawi People’s struggle, underlining the Algerian Parliament’s determination to organize an international colloquium for the parliamentarians in solidarity with the Sahrawi people in the beginning of next year.

For her part, Euro-MP Paloma Lopez argued against the fact that the European Commission and Morocco tried to shirk CJEU’s decision, pointing out the failure of the Moroccan lobby in promoting the thesis of the Moroccan occupation in the European Parliament.

The European deputies in favor of the Sahrawi people organized a certain number of activities as part of the Sahrawi struggle for justice. Thanks to these efforts, the Sahrawi issue has become more present with the European legislature, according to her.

Saturday, November 17, 2018

Thousands of demonstrators in Madrid call on Spanish government to hold on its historic responsibilities towards Saharawi people


Tens of thousands of Sahrawis and members of the Solidarity Movement demonstrated today in Madrid to condemn the Madrid tripartite agreement and demand that the Spanish state take on its historic responsibilities.

The demonstrators marched through the streets of the Spanish capital, chanting slogans in support of the Saharawi people's struggle, holding Sahrawi national flags and banners demanding the Spanish state to shoulder its responsibilities towards its former colony.
The final statement of the demonstration condemned Morocco's violation of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, especially the mistreatment of Sahrawi prisoners of conscience in the Moroccan prisons.
It also condemned the European Commission's attempt to bypass the last decision of the European Court of Justice, which affirmed beyond any doubt that Western Sahara is a separate territory from Morocco, which has no sovereignty over it.  
The statement also called on the Spanish companies involved in the marketing of Sahrawi products through Morocco to stop plundering the wealth of an occupied people.
The statement called on the European Commission to negotiate with the only representative of the Sahrawi people, the Polisario Front, and to sign economic and trade agreements with it as it represent the entire Saharawi people.
It also called on the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to include human rights monitoring in the occupied territories within its mandate.
Finally, the Solidarity Movement expressed its sincere appreciation to the Spanish people for their continued support for the Sahrawi people's right to independence despite the government's failure and its complicity with Morocco
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Thursday, November 8, 2018

Panel on women in on the sideline of Municipalism towards the process of decolonization of Western Sahara Conference

The Municipalism towards the decolonization of Western Sahara conference has organized a panel on the experience and role of Saharawi women in the struggle for Sahrawi self-determination and independence.
The panel opened with the presentation of the delegate of the Frente POLISARIO in Spain, Jira Bulahi, addressing the determination of the Saharawi woman to be an active actor in the struggle and the achievements of more than 4 decades of resistance in difficult conditions.
She highlighted the policy of the Frente POLISARIO and the Saharawi State to grant women a vanguard papal, guaranteeing their political and social rights.
the activist Aalia Ajyarhum has also briefed the attendee on  the situation of Sahrawi women in the occupied areas of Western Sahara, making known the difficult situation that everyday lives women as victims of the constant violations of human rights by the Moroccan regime.
Ajyarhum has requested the urgent intervention of the international community to put an end to the current situation and ensure respect for the human rights of the civilian population living under Moroccan occupation.
Other speakers are those of Habiba Salama, coordinator of the UESARIO in the Spanish State, and Geli Sánchez, Jerez platform with Palestine and the Sahara, who highlighted that the Sahrawi woman enjoys great recognition for her career and the role played in the resistance.
The days "Municipalism towards the decolonization of Western Sahara" meet in Cádiz, Andalusia, and come to strengthen and organize political support for the struggle for the total decolonization of Western Sahara.SPS

Sunday, November 4, 2018

Inter-faith seminar XIII in the refugee camps

The center of information and culture of the UNMS in the Wilayas of Bujdur today houses the 13th Interfaith seminar with the participation of foreign delegations. "The family in the sacred books" is the central theme of this meeting that takes place every year in the camp of Saharan refugees with a clear vision of tolerance, respect, coexistence and peace between different religious beliefs.

Saturday, November 3, 2018

The Secretary general of the UNMS participates in the Eighth International Symposium on the Role of African women in peace and sustainable development

The Secretary general of the UNMS participates in the Eighth International Symposium on the Role of African women in peace and sustainable development, held from 1 to 03 November 2018 in the capital of Namibia, Windhoek, under the slogan "If we want to end the  . Wars in Africa, women should take the lead
Different African personalities participated in the international symposium representing 52 countries.
Interventions focused on the importance of women's participation in the peace-building process as a key step towards achieving sustainable development in Africa, in accordance with UN Security Council resolution 1325
The final Declaration emphasizes solidarity with the struggle of the Sahrawi people
In denouncing the status quo in Western Sahara, as well as the most egregious violations of human rights for more than four decades due to Moroccan occupation. 

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Bilbao hosts from Monday and until Sunday, October 28, the 11th international meeting of the feminist movement of the World March of women,

Bilbao hosts from Monday and until Sunday, October 28, the 11th international meeting of the feminist movement of the World March of women, which will bring together 130 women from 40 countries and whose main event will be the day of the 'feminist people' that held it the Saturday 27.
The inauguration of the XI meeting took place on Monday in the showroom Bizkaia Aretoa.La National Union of Sahrawi women participating in this event as a member of the Board on behalf of North Africa
The main objectives of show find they are alternative feminists seeking to unite all forces, through the fair of the feminist alternative, they will also organize talks, a demonstration and concert.
Participants in the meeting will reflect on the global context and its impact on the situation of women and also planned the V international action, which will be held within two years.

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Training in different disciplines are the activities that take place daily in the homes of women in the Wilayas in the Sahrawi refugee camps

 Training in different disciplines are the activities that take place daily in the homes of women in the Wilayas in the Sahrawi refugee camps.

 Languages, office and administration, nutrition, reproductive health, preventive health, cutting and preparation, hospitality etc, are just some of the programs that are carried out with the collaboration of international organizations.





The courses are developed in all the houses until the end of December of 2018, and to assist women of the dairas and institutions.

Saturday, October 20, 2018

President of Republic supervises opening of military school for girls


President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the POLISARIO Front, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, inaugurated on Saturday the military school for girls, School of Martyr Al-Za'ra Hamdi, in presence of the Minister of National Defense, members of the National Secretariat of POLISARIO Front and the Government, as well as military and civilian executives.

Minister of National Defense, Abdellah Lahbib praised the role of Sahrawi women in the liberation march, pointing out that the school of Martyr Al-Za'ra Hamdi is not the first but an extension of the stand of Sahrawi woman alongside her brother man since the founding of the POLISARIO Front.

Friday, October 12, 2018

The National Unity is a remarkable history in the struggle of the Saharawi people


The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali, said  that the adherence of the Saharawi people to their national unity, is a turning point in the history of our noble liberation movement.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the celebrations of the 43rd anniversary of the national unity, President Gali stressed that the Sahrawi people are still achieving gains at the national and international level
The National Unity is the pillar of our great achievement, and a historical and wise decision of the Frente Popular para la Liberación de Saguia el-Hamra y de Río de Oro (Frente OLISARIO)”   Brahim Gali adds in his official speech
He has also highly praised the role the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in protecting and preserving the important gains made by the Saharawi people through the cohesion of their unity

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

The 43 EUCOCO comes to renew and strengthen political support for the Saharawi cause," Jira Bulahi.


The representative of the Frente POLISARIO in Spain, Jira Bulahi, said that the 43rd European Conference of Solidarity with the Saharawi People (EUCOCO) will have broad participation from delegations from all continents.
In declarations to SPS.  Bulahi affirmed that like the other editions, the 43 EUCOCO will have as key axis the celebration of four workshops and working groups. political workshop, human rights workshop and occupied zones and natural resources and workshop for the strengthening and consolidation of the institutions of the Sahrawi State. The working groups will be dedicated to union work and the role of lawyers and jurists.
Jira Bulahi added that the meeting of the Parliamentary Intergroups of support for the Saharawi people will be held at the headquarters of the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
"November 17 will be held the" traditional "Madrid demonstration, through which the illegal Tripartite Agreement of Madrid is denounced and Spain is required to assume its responsibility in the decolonization of Western Sahara," concluded the representatives of the Frente POLISARIO.

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Women Sahrawi preparing the mural for the national holiday

 Eve to the national unity day, October 12, women Sahrawi preparing the mural that participate as National Union of Sahrawi women in parades during the celebrations that will take place in the Wilayas of Auserd.

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Claude Mangin begins a visit to Germany on the human rights situation in Western Sahara


Human rights activist Claude Mangin Asfari has begun a awarenee visit to Germany on the human rights situation in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara
The activist of the Saharawi cause participated in the 16th edition of the African Film Festival in Cologne. She was one of the guests of honor where the film Dis-Leur I Exist and 4 short films Three Stolen Cameras, Cast in Sand, Barber Shop Skeikima and elsewhere were screened.
In the Municipality of Bremen, Claude Mangin Asfari, was received at the seat of the Land Parliament by the Deputy, Vice President of the Foreign Affairs Committee Mrs Grotheer and by Hermann Kleen, the Chief of Staff of Christian Weber the President of the Parliament. It was a question of how to continue the already active support of Bremen to the Parliament in Berlin.
In this context, the human rights activist met with the municipality of Göttingen, the director of the Association of Endangered Peoples, Ulrich Delius where he promised to continue to redouble the efforts especially to organize concerts with the other German associations to obtain support of the Saharawi cause from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to be a spokesman of the Saharawi cause in (OHCHR), The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva thanks to its ECOSOC status.

Sunday, September 16, 2018

Official launch of academic year 2018-2019


The new academic year (2018-2019) officially started on Sunday in the Saharawi refugee camps and liberated territories of the Sahrawi Republic, after the national conference on education held last week in the wilaya of Boujdour.
The Ministry of Education confirmed that the launch is conducted with the presence of members from the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, the Sahrawi government, and regional and local authorities, and under the supervision of the Ministry of Education.
The Ministry of Education also supervised the transfer of studying in neighboring Algeria starting from August 8, under the supervision of a committee of education and national partner institutions. (SPS)


Wednesday, September 12, 2018

POLISARIO renews its commitment to support UN envoy to Western Sahara efforts for direct negotiations

 Wali of Aaiun Camps,  Mr. Mohamed Salim Bisset has reiterated the commitment of the Frente POLISARIO to support the efforts of the UN Special Envoy to Western Sahara, former German President Horst Köhler, voicing POLISARIO full readiness to resume direct negotiations with the Moroccan occupation state In good faith and without any preconditions.
Sahrawi official while presenting a conference entitled “Three decades to eradicate colonization; Evaluation and changes in Western Sahara ” on the sidelines of his participation along with  Saharawi delegation composed of human rights activists and victims of Moroccan occupation  repression in the works of the XXXIX session of the Human Rights Council. SPS

Thursday, August 30, 2018

International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances: CEAS-Sahara urges MINURSO to ensure access to places where there are reports of mass graves


Madrid, August 30, 2018 (SPS) - The State Coordinating Committee of Associations in Solidarity with the Sahrawi people (CEAS-Sahara) has demanded in a statement on the occasion of  the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances that MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) ensure access to places where there are reports of mass graves or burials of dead or disappeared persons and that independent teams can carry out this identification and return to their families.
CEAS-Sahara has stated in its statement that Enforced disappearance is still a reality in Western Sahara and "is one of the most atrocious behaviors carried out for decades against the Saharawi people that still hopes to make effective their rights to justice, truth and reparation. . "
CEAS-Sahara said that the Sahrawi disappeared persons in the graves where exhumations have been carried out, and in other cases still pending clarification, were Spanish citizens.
On December 21, 2010, the General Assembly of the United Nations expressed its concern over the increase in forced disappearances in various regions of the world and decided to declare August 30, International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances.
AFAPREDESA, the Association of Relatives of Prisoners and Sahrawis Disappeared continues working on the search of more than 400 documented cases of victims of enforced disappearances in Western Sahara. The majority of these disappearances occurred during the first years of the military occupation of the territory (between 1975 and 1976).
CEAS-Sahara said that there is ample evidence of the existence of mass graves in Western Sahara. The places of burial of the Sahrawi people who died in the clandestine detention centers have not been revealed, nor have their remains been rescued and identified, nor returned to their families for their burial and mourning.
At the invitation AFAPREDESA, a forensic investigation team of HEGOA, Institute of the University of the Basque Country, under the direction of Professor Francisco Etxeberria Gabilondo, has proceeded to the exhumation of different common graves .
In this context, in light of the results of the investigations carried out to date from CEAS-Sahara, it warned of the risk that the sites are of common graves being destroyed by the Moroccan occupying administration given that some of those places are in zones under military or police control.
CEAS-Sahara demanded that the Spanish State assume its responsibility. The disappeared Sahrawi people in the graves where exhumations have been carried out, in other cases still pending clarification, were Spanish citizens at the time of the events.
The Spanish State maintains its responsibility to investigate and support the recognition of the victims of enforced disappearance of the Saharawi people, and this has been recognized in the investigation of the case of genocide that continues in the National Court. SPS

Saturday, August 11, 2018

The participants in the ninth (martyr Boukhari Ahmed) edition of the summer university which takes place in Boumerdes,

The participants in the ninth (martyr Boukhari Ahmed) edition of the summer university which takes place in Boumerdes, Algeria, from 4 to 15 August low the 45 years of the creation of the F.Polisario and the luchade release, commitment and determination for freedom and the independence. In its second week the participants performed an act of support and solidarity with Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan prisons and demand his immediate release. 

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

The Pope @Pontifex_es received in the Vatican, the Saharawi children

The Pope @Pontifex_es received in the Vatican, the Saharawi children born and living in the camps for Sahrawi refugees in the South of Algeria. During the ceremony the Saharawi children expressed his desire and right to know their free homeland, Western Sahara, soon.

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Within the framework of a policy of integration adopted by the African Union, to integrate the African community throughout the world and to enable their participation in the development of the African continent

Within the framework of a policy of integration adopted by the African Union, to integrate the African community throughout the world and to enable their participation in the development of the African continent, a delegation from the Commission delegation of the African Union, led by Vice President Thomas Kwersi Quartey and several of his aides, as well as a high-level delegation on behalf of the economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), led by Director Seydo Ahmed Bashir, which also includes among its members the general secretariat of the National Union of Sahrawi women as Vice President of ECOSOC, conducted a working visit to the islands of Trinidad and Tobaqo in Latin America, in coordination with the community network of the Africa of the Caribbean Islands. The working visit will cover activities, meetings, and workshops on the definition of the organs of the AU and the search for formulas to enable the participation of the African community at the level of the Islands. Also held seminars with the participation of political figures at the level of the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Guyana, Cuba, Barbados, Suriname, Costa Rica, Martinique, as well as civil society organizations. The visit started on July 29 and will continue until August 1, 2018.

Monday, July 30, 2018

Day of the African woman"

On July 31, 1962 was institutionalized the "day of the African woman" during a Conference of African women, held in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, which was attended by representatives of 14 countries and eight national liberation movements.
That Act was based, so that, in 1974, was created the Pan-African organization of the women (OPM), which aims to allow the change in the lives of African women, promoting their progress, justice and peace in the world.
The OPM to the UNMS and various women's organizations working to ensure the participation of women in decision-making, respect for human rights, as well as the Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against them.
African women's day is an exceptional moment, because it highlights the history of struggles for freedom of expression, the African mother's love as well as their contribution to the progress and evolution of societies internationally. This day is an opportunity to honor the women of a continent full of challenges, but also full of possibilities and progress for liberation and the building of a tolerant and egalitarian society in the framework of the objectives and activities to develop in the program marked by the Decade of African woman 2010-2020.

In this context the Sahrawi women work on the ground for progress at the level of organization of civil society, especially the Organization of women, youth and disabled and whose efforts deserve the highest recognition to be an experience developed in the field of democracy, equality and good governance for more than 43 years in adverse circumstances of exile, as well as the importance of the efforts made by the Sahrawi institutions in respect to the human rights.
The Sahrawi women in exile are the engine of an economy that is based on the management exemplary humanitarian aid who receive the Sahrawi refugees as well as promote self-financing and small initiatives allowing a self-sufficiency and no place to doubt is part of the work of African women to revive the economies of families.
The contributions of African women to the family economy, food production systems, and national economies in general, is being recognized gradually because they constitute 80% of the people who implement actions of trade transnational, generating millions of dollars a year into the economies of sub-Saharan Africa. However, most of the policies implemented by Governments have obviated these contributions, so the women who perform these tasks act with little or no institutional support.
Different international institutions (UN women, World Bank and NGOs) are working at the regional and country level to promote women's economic empowerment: business training programs, microcredit programs, assistance Financial, etc... These institutions also work to eliminate other barriers, such as trade policies and regulations that hinder women's access to markets. Sahrawi women want to congratulate African women on this day of African women and we demand the end of the occupation of our country by Morocco and its military and police forces so that our freedom is a reality that allows us to change In the lives of Sahrawi women, To promote with our progress, justice and peace in our continent and in the world.