The 4th International Conference" Women's right
to resist: the situation forgotten of Sahrawi women”, held in Boujdour, from 2
to 3 June 2016 under the title "The forgotten situation of Sahrawi
women", with the participation of delegations from Algeria, Nigeria,
Namibia and Zimbabwe, as well as delegates from different countries and
national institutions and continental and international organizations.
The 4th International Conference started its work
organizing a forum of solidarity with the political prisoners of the Gdim Izik
on hunger strike open, with interventions through messages of solidarity and
the interventions of the participants from Algeria, Nigeria, Namibia, Zimbabwe,
Spain, Sweden among other organizations participating in the Conference, which
expressed support for the political prisoners and demanded urgent intervention
by the international community to release all political prisoners Sahrawi in
Moroccan prisons, also reaffirmed their determination to
continue their claim
in international
forums.
At the 4th International Conference has been
discussing the first substantive experiences basic women in the resistance
during the African liberation movements and their role in building after
independence, with presentations on the experiences of countries such as
Namibia, Algeria, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and the experience of the Sahrawi women in
the occupied territories and in refugee camps , camps of dignity for forty
years. The second theme was the role of cooperatives in promoting give it
strength and experience of the organization that promotes political and
economic in African women, Algerian, capabilities as well as the experience of
cooperatives of Saharawi women.
The IV Conference praised the firmness and resistance
of Sahrawi women and prominent role in the fight of the Sahrawi people to
self-determination and independence and active participation in the
construction of the institutions of the State and called the rest of the world,
especially Africa, to expand the space of solidarity with women in a situation
of resistance against the occupation and allow them to contribute as an active
partner in the
development Justice and peace.
The IV Conference has appealed to the United Nations
and especially the Security Council to accelerate the implementation of the
decisions and recommendations related to the conflict in Western Sahara for the
Organization of a free and democratic referendum allowing the Saharan people to
decide their destiny freely, thus completing the process of decolonization of
the last colony in Africa
. The IV Conference also called the need to protect
the human rights of Saharans in the occupied territories of Western Sahara
monitoring and reporting against the brutality of the Moroccan regime, as well
as stop the plundering of the natural resources of the territory, plundered by
the illegal occupation and the dismantling of the wall of shame, which
constitutes a crime against humanity.
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