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Open Letter to the United Nations Secretary General on the situation in Western Sahara
In solidarity with Sahrawi human rights activist and 2019 Right Livelihood Laureate Aminatou Haidar, an open letter signed by twenty-two Right Livelihood Laureates was sent today to the United Nations Secretary General António...
Call to Action | Help Ahmed Alabbassi
Ahmed Alabbassi, a father to 5 children from a poor family in occupied Dakhla city in Western Sahara. He was diagnosed with a Liver Cirrhosis, his health is deteriorating rapidly and in order to survive a liver failure; he is in dire need of a surgery, an expensive...
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances |Geneva Support Group | Press Release
In this day, SAUSA joins the Geneva Support Group for the protection and the promotion of Human Rights in Western Sahara and recalls that hundreds of Sahrawis combatants and civilians are still disappeared following the military invasion in November 1975 and the...
Webinar | US foreign policy on Western Sahara
Join us to learn about the US Foreign Policy on Western Sahara. With professor Jacob Mundy, PhD, an Associate Professor at Colgate University where he teaches in the Peace and Conflict Studies program and the Middle East and Islamic Studies program. He is the coauthor...
Webinar | International Law & The Question Of Western Sahara
Join us this Saturday, July 18th on a webinar with Dr. Jeffrey Smith; a professor of international law in Ottawa, Canada. A practicing lawyer, he was counsel to the United Nations administration in East Timor during that country’s transition to independence. He has...
World Refugee Day | THE PEOPLE OF WESTERN SAHARA ARE AFRICA’S FORGOTTEN REFUGEES
World Refugee Day falls each year on 20 June and is dedicated to refugees around the globe. World Refugee Day was held globally for the first time on 20 June 2001, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. It was...
المنسق الصحراوي مع بعثة المينورسو، أمحمد خداد في ذمة الله
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم (يَأَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ * ارْجِعِي إِلَى رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَرْضِيَّةً * فَادْخُلِي فِي عِبَادِي * وَادْخُلِي جَنَّتِي) صدق الله العظيم جمعية الصحراويين بالولايات المتحدة الامريكية (SAUSA) بقلوب مؤمنة يسودها الحزن...
Self-Determination as Resistance: Sahrawi and Palestinian Struggle for the UN
This is an excerpt from The United Nations: Friend or Foe of Self-Determination? Get your free copy here. Source: E-International Relations { Self-Determination as Resistance: Sahrawi and Palestinian Struggle for the UN} This chapter[1] draws on the cases...
19 March 2020 | Enforced disappearance of human rights defender El-Khatat Babit
On 12 March 2020, Sahrawi human rights defender El-Khatat Babit was violently detained by the Moroccan army during a peaceful demonstration in the demilitarised border village of Guerguerat. His current whereabouts remain unknown. Download the Urgent...
The story of Mbarek El Ansari: A ban on the freedom of movement in Western Sahara
My name is Mbarek El Ansari, and I was born on the date of 08/18/1979 in the city of El- Aaiun, the capital of Western Sahara, holder of a Spanish National Identity card number: 42423125Q. I am a Saharaui human rights activist monitoring and documenting...