Western Sahara: Out of the Impasse, 11 Jun 2007 22:02:39 GMT
International Crisis Group
Cairo/Brussels, 11 June 2007: Despite some recent optimism and new talks starting on 18 June, the conflict in Western Sahara – with its heavy continuing costs on all the parties – won’t be resolved without a fundamental change in the UN Security Council’s approach.
The International Crisis Group released two reports on the conflict today.
Western Sahara: Out of the Impasse>  
Western Sahara: The Cost of the Conflict>

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Australian tour of Malainin Lakhal, Secretary General of the Union of Saharawi Writers and Journalists,  and human rights activist. 

Press Release 4 June 2007>
Note: 
Malainin is posting stories about his visit to Australia on his website

View events in Sydney and Canberra 13 June – 7 July>

PLEASE NOTE THE CORRECTION TO THE DATE FOR THE UNSW SEMINAR – It is on Wed 13 June, not Tuesday 12 June.
Corrected details below:
Wednesday, 13 June at 12.30 – 2.00, Seminar at University of NSW Australian Centre for Human Rights, Seminar Room, Level 2, Law Building, UNSW.
(light lunch will be provided)

The English version of the Saharawi journalists’ website is now available; this is particularly well-timed, coinciding with the arrival in Australia of Malainin Lakhal, Saharawi journalist and Secretary General of the Union of Saharawi Journalists and Writers
Visit UPES-Union of Saharawi Journalists and Writers website >>

“Dear Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
I write in support of the people of Western Sahara. Western Sahara continues to be regarded by the United Nations as a non-self-governing territory and as such is entitled to a process of decolonisation. The UN has a responsibility to ensure that its doctrine of decolonisation is practiced to the letter in Africa’s last remaining colony….
Read the letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

The Associated Press/ International Herald Tribune, Published: May 17, 2007
RABAT, Morocco: Moroccan riot police wielding truncheons clashed Thursday with stone-throwing students demanding independence for Western Sahara.
Saharawi students have staged a sit-in since Monday at Mohamed V university in the capital, Rabat.
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1- The Security Council has just adopted a new resolution on the question of Western Sahara (resolution 1754 of 30 April 2007) that the Frente POLISARIO has welcomed in view of the fact that it has solemnly enshrined the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination…
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