Human Rights In Western Sahara
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The Government of Morocco sees Western Sahara as its Southern Provinces. The Moroccan government considers the Polisario Front as a separatist movement given the alleged Moroccan origins of some of its leaders, and a puppet in the hands of Algeria.
The Polisario Front argues that according to international organizations as the UN or the AU, the territory of Western Sahara has the right of self-determination, and according to that organizations Morocco illegally occupies the parts of Western Sahara under its control. POLISARIO sees that as a consequence of the vision of a Great Morocco, fuelled in the past by the Istiqlal and Hassan II, and considers itself a national liberation movement aiming at leading the disputed territory to independence under the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
The United States, the European Union, the African Union and the United Nations do not recognize the sovereignty of Morocco over Western Sahara.
Read more about Human Rights In Western Sahara: Human Rights, Human Rights in Morocco-controlled Western Sahara, Human Rights in POLISARIO-controlled Refugee Camps
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