Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: western sahara | Activist group wants BHP to halt the export of phosphates from disputed region if it takes control of Potash CorpBHP Billiton is being urged to help end the export of valuable resources from Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara if it succeeds in its attempt to buy Canada's Potash Corporation.Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW), an activist group, is writing to Marius Kloppers, the mining company's chief executive, to ask him to halt the export of phosphates from the region by Potash Corp in the event of BHP Billiton taking control. It accuses Potash Corp, the world's biggest fertiliser company, of propping up the Moroccan regime that has occupied much of the Sahara for the past 35 years.
Feed: WAPO | Search phrase: western sahara | PARIS -- Mauritanian commandos backed by the French military carried out the raid in the dead of night, guns blazing as they pounced on a small terrorist campsite in a desolate stretch of the Sahara Desert.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: western sahara | The theft of fish from Western Saharan waters should be damned by the European commission, not encouragedThere is one surefire way of allowing the internet to damage your sanity: spend too much time reading politicians' blogs. Take a recent post from Maria Damanaki, whose career has taken her from agitating against the Greek dictatorship in the 1970s to being the European commissioner for fisheries today. "Blue should become green," she declared in her blog on EU efforts to lessen the ecological destruction wrought by illegal fishing.Those efforts might have some credibility if the Brussels bureaucracy was not actively encouraging European vessels to act unlawfully in the waters off Western Sahara.In 2005, the EU and Morocco signed a lucrative fisheries agreement.
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: western sahara | Source: Reuters * Polisario criticized U.N.'s Ban for stand on abuses * U.N. supports Western Sahara's "self determination" By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, April 23 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary- ...
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: western sahara | As six hunger-strikers near death protesting at the Moroccan occupation, it's time for the UN to monitor human rightsAnyone who saw the episode of the BBC documentary Tropic of Cancer last month in which journalist Simon Reeve travelled across Western Sahara would have seen Rachid Sghair. He was the human rights campaigner who bravely appeared before the camera to denounce the 35-year Moroccan occupation of his country and the resulting human rights abuses suffered by Sahrawi people.Today Sghair is in a critical condition after having spent the last month on hunger strike in a Moroccan prison. Along with five other prominent human rights defenders, he has been refusing food in protest at their detention without trial.
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: western sahara | Source: Reuters By Daniel Bases NEW YORK, April 7 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said in a report released on Wednesday that Morocco and Western Sahara's independence movement, Polisario, remain ...
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: western sahara | Today, as the UN publishes a report on Western Sahara for consideration by the security council, over 100 parliamentarians, celebrities and NGOs have added their names to a letter to UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon. The letter calls on the UN to monitor human rights in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. Minurso, the UN mission for Western Sahara, has the dubious distinction of being the only contemporary peace-keeping mission without a mandate to monitor human rights. Human rights defenders in the disputed territory are regular victims of arbitrary arrest, sexual violence, torture and "disappearance". The renewal of Minurso's mandate on the 30 April provides the opportunity the security council must use to rectify this.
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: western sahara | Source: Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) - Morocco's return of confiscated passports this week to activists living in Western Sahara and the renewal of others is a positive step, Human Rights Watch said today. The ...
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: western sahara | As the world's diplomats duel over her destiny, Aminatou Haidar, on the 29th day of her hunger strike, could be hours from deathAnyone who has seen Hunger, Steve McQueen's harrowing film about the Maze prison hunger strike, will have some idea of just how horrific it is to die by starvation. Bobby Sands, a fit 27-year-old man, survived 66 days without food. Aminatou Haidar, a delicate 42-year-old, is on the 29th day of her hunger strike; with a perforated ulcer and a constitution weakened by years of imprisonment and torture, there are fears that she will not survive much longer.She is now too weak to stand, and the director of Lanzarote hospital, Domingo de Guzmán, has warned that Haidar's life expectancy is now "hours or days rather than weeks".
Feed: BBC Africas | Search phrase: western sahara | Spain has not ruled out the option of sending a Western Sahara independence activist on hunger strike in the country back to Moroccan territory.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: western sahara | Hunger striker Aminatou Haidar must have justice. Begging Morocco's rotten monarch won't bring itA woman from Western Sahara, Aminatou Haidar, lies on the floor at Lanzarote airport on hunger strike and near death. She was refused entry to her own country because she refused to write "Moroccan" on her departure card. She is denied access to her two children in her home town of El Ayoun, under Moroccan control. The international court of justice has declared that Western Saharans have the right to self-determination. The country is illegally occupied by Morocco. Yet Haidar was stripped of her passport and arbitrarily dumped on a plane to Spain.
Feed: CNN Top Stories | Search phrase: western sahara | An award-winning Western Sahara independence activist on the 25th day of her hunger strike at a Spanish airport said Thursday she wants to return home to live with her family, "but in dignity.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: western sahara | Respected body's second annual report condemns Arab League for remaining silent on grave human rights violationsHuman rights in the Arab world have deteriorated over the last year as governments flaunt progress on women's issues while evading and actively blocking broader reforms that guarantee dignity for all, says a report.Beyond issues facing individual countries, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies blames Arab governments and member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference for working in concert within UN institutions to undermine international mechanisms and standards for the protection of human rights.The CIRHS is an independent body whose work is respected by western-based human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
Feed: BBC World | Search phrase: western sahara | A Western Sahara independence activist on hunger strike at a Spanish airport says she is now refusing all medical care.
Feed: BBC Africas | Search phrase: western sahara | A Western Sahara independence activist on hunger strike in Spain says she is now refusing all medical care over a passport row with Morocco.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: western sahara | Spain's deputy prime minister, MarÃa Teresa Fernández de la Vega, has said it is in negotiations with Morocco over the return of a prominent Western Sahara independence activist who has been on hunger strike for 20 days.Aminatou Haidar has been camped at Lanzarote airport since 14 November, when Morocco stripped her of her passport and flew her out after she refused to acknowledge Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony. Late on Friday an agreement appeared to have been reached and the 43-year-old boarded a jet to return, but Morocco denied it landing rights minutes before take-off, her lawyer said. Last night Morocco stated that Haidar will not be allowed back unless she makes a formal apology to the king. MoroccoSpainguardian.co.
Feed: BBC Africas | Search phrase: western sahara | Morocco says a Western Sahara activist on hunger strike in the Canary Islands must apologise to end a passport row.
Feed: BBC World | Search phrase: western sahara | Morocco says a Western Sahara activist on hunger strike in the Canary Islands must apologise to end a passport row.
Feed: Independent | Search phrase: western sahara | Expelled from her homeland and weak from a hunger strike, the last thing award-winning Sahrawi independence activist Aminatou Haidar needs right now is a €180 fine.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: western sahara | As she enters the third week of her hunger strike, Nobel peace prize nominee Aminatou Haidar is in a critical condition. Yesterday a cross-party group of MPs tabled a motion expressing dismay at her expulsion from Western Sahara. Her deportation has been condemned by Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, as well as supporters around the world. Last week the US state department called for "a speedy determination of her legal status and full respect for due process and human rights". Although barely able to speak, Haidar has vowed to continue her hunger strike as part of the struggle of the entire Saharawi people. "It is about the collective right denied to the Saharawi people to live freely in their native land," she said.
Feed: BBC Africas | Search phrase: western sahara | Spanish singers stage a concert in support of a Western Sahara activist on hunger strike in the Canary Islands.
Feed: BBC World | Search phrase: western sahara | Spanish singers stage a concert in support of a Western Sahara activist on hunger strike in the Canary Islands.
Feed: BBC Africas | Search phrase: western sahara | A Western Sahara activist on hunger strike in Spain's Canary Islands is due in court on public order offences, supporters say.
Feed: BBC World | Search phrase: western sahara | A Western Sahara activist on hunger strike in Spain's Canary Islands is due in court on public order offences, supporters say.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: western sahara | Aminatou Haidar, campaigner for indigenous Sahrawi rights, expelled over refusal to accept Moroccan nationalityWestern Sahara's most prominent human rights activist has gone on hunger strike at a Spanish airport after being expelled from her home country by Moroccan authorities.Aminatou Haidar, who is viewed by her supporters as the "Sahrawi Gandhi", was deported to Lanzarote from the disputed territory of Western Sahara on Saturday. Morocco has occupied the former Spanish colony since 1975, refusing a say on independence to the indigenous Sahrawi population, including some 100,000 people still living in refugee camps in the desert in south-western Algeria.
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: western sahara | Source: Reuters MADRID, Nov 16 (Reuters) - A prominent Western Sahara independence campaigner who was expelled by Moroccan authorities from the disputed territory says she is being kept in Spain's Canary Islands ...
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: western sahara | Timothy Garton Ash covers a broad canvas of post-1989 issues (Comment, 5 November), but the key failure was to leave Mikhail Gorbachev without economic support at the crucial moment.In 1989, unlike in 1945, the west lacked a George Marshall with a plan to pay for transition and stability in Europe. The Soviet Union imploded dramatically, rather than by stages, the Russian people found themselves at the mercy of the oligarchs and the mafia, and soon came to blame Gorbachev for all their ills. As George Soros agrees, the rouble should have been underpinned and guaranteed, not just to prevent severe hardship for former Soviet citizens but also to ensure the early erosion of east-west barriers.
Feed: BBC Africas | Search phrase: western sahara | Morocco expels a Swedish diplomat for allegedly passing documents to separatist groups in Western Sahara.
Feed: BBC World | Search phrase: western sahara | Morocco expels a Swedish diplomat for allegedly passing documents to separatist groups in Western Sahara.
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: western sahara | Source: UNHCR UNHCR chief Guterres secures agreement from key players to expand confidence-building measures for Sahrawi refugees from Western Sahara.
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: western sahara | Source: Reuters Aug 12 (Reuters) - Morocco and the Polisario Western Sahara independence movement said on Wednesday they hoped talks to resolve their dispute would continue this year. Western Sahara ...
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: western sahara | Source: Reuters VIENNA, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Morocco and the Polisario Western Sahara independence movement agreed to continue talks after exchanging views in a United Nations-hosted two-day informal gathering in ...
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: western sahara | Source: Reuters * Moroccan, Polisario delegations to meet in Austria * Analysts say little prospect of breakthrough * Dispute hindering anti-militant efforts: diplomats By Christian Lowe and Lamine Ghanmi ...
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: western sahara | Source: Reuters By Lamine Ghanmi LAAYOUNE, Western Sahara, June 11 (Reuters) - When a speaker told a rally in this city that Morocco had changed, dozens of people held up mobile phones so their friends and ...
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