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Why Morocco should not be elected President of the UN Human Rights Council!
On 8 December 2023, the UN Human Rights Council announced that a vote is expected in January 2024, to elect the Council’s President for the 18th cycle in 2024. The kingdom of Morocco is among the states representatives who have put forward their candidacies. Simply put, Morocco human rights records does not qualify it to be considered for such important role. SAUSA position is: A Human Rights Violator can be the president of the Human Rights Council and to remind the UNHRC that it is imperative that the process be in line with the principles set out in General Assembly which Morocco violate on daily basis in Western Sahara.
Press Release | The Deteriorating human Rights situation in Western Sahara
OMAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER SULTANA KHAYA WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED | Front Line Defenders
On 12 May 2021, several masked Moroccan security agents raided the home of woman human rights defender Sultana Khaya, and sexually assaulted her and her sister. This was the second raid on her house in 48 hours. On 10 May 2021, several Moroccan plain-clothed security...
WEBINAR | Carmen Johns | Former political affairs officer at the UN
Carmen Johns is a former journalist, and former political affairs officer at the UN for 15 years. She has worked in radio broadcasting in Santiago, Chile, often covering human rights violations during the Pinochet regime, and various newspapers and other publications,...
WEBINAR | WOMEN UNDER THE OCCUPATION
SAUSA is organizing a webinar this Saturday at 11 am (New York time) on Sahrawi Women under the occupation. Forty six years after the military occupation of Western Sahara by the Moroccan Kingdom the plight of the saharawi people seems to have no end. A forgotten...
Webinar | THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN WESTERN SAHARA – RECORDING
https://youtu.be/7v-frUIUyZs
WEBINAR | WESTERN SAHARA AND THE PLUNDERING OF ITS NATURAL RESOURCES
Join us and learn about how Western Sahara : Africa's Last Colony natural resources are being plundered. PANALISTS: Mr. Erik Hagen Western Sahara Resource Watch (https://wsrw.org) Mr. SALEC LAGDAF(Western Sahara Action Irland RECORDING :...
45 years | Struggle for self-determination
In 1975, following the International Court of Justice ruling rejecting Moroccan claims to Western Sahara and categorically ruling that the Sahrawi people are entitled to self-determination. Morocco invaded the territory in violation of international law, forcing...
A Comprehensive Report on the Recent Human Rights Situation in Western Sahara.
By: Saharawi Association in the USA (SAUSA). Occupied Western Sahara has been living in a nightmare of human rights violation since the start of the occupation in 1975. Despite all cries and calls for justice and international law application, the situation remains...
Latino Media Collective | THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES IN WESTERN SAHARA
The LMC kicks off 2021 by focusing on the continued struggle for Western Saharan independence. So as another example of Donald Trump’s criminal enterprise abroad, the LMC speaks with Mulay Ahmed on the Trump administration’s recognition of Morocco’s illegal occupation...