Human Rights in Western Sahara

Human Rights In Western Sahara

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History of Western Sahara
Background
  • Spanish Sahara
  • Moroccan Army of Liberation
  • Harakat Tahrir
  • Polisario Front
  • Sahrawi National Union Party
  • Madrid Accords
Disputed regions
  • Saguia el-Hamra
  • Río de Oro
  • Southern Provinces
  • Free Zone
Politics
  • Political status of Western Sahara
  • Politics of Morocco / of the SADR
  • Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs
Rebellions
Background
  • Ifni War
  • Zemla Intifada
Since 1973
  • Western Sahara conflict
    • 1973 clashes
    • Western Sahara War
    • Intifada
Issues
  • Sahrawi refugee camps
  • Berm (wall)
  • Human rights in Western Sahara
Peace process
  • Resolution 1495
  • Resolution 1754
  • Visiting mission
  • Referendum mission
  • ICJ Advisory Opinion
  • Settlement Plan
  • Houston Agreement
  • Baker Plan
  • Manhasset negotiations
  • Moroccan Initiative

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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