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Illegal importation of phospate into Australia

Give Sahara just deserts, by Daniel Breen 
Published in Geelong Advertiser, 10 January 2007, page 10
(See also AWSA Press Release  9 Jan 2007)
HUMAN Rights advocates have called on fertiliser company Incitec Pivot to stop importing phosphate from a disadvantaged African colony.  Incitec Pivot currently imports phosphate from Western Sahara but the money goes to Morocco
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Sahara Marathon 2007 – February 26th

p5.jpgThe Sahara Marathon is an international sport event to demonstrate solidarity with the Saharawi people and run by the Saharawi Sport Committee.   The route symbolically connects the three refugee camps of Smara, Auserd and ElAyoun, and leads runners through a desert which has been the home of Saharawi refugees for 30 years.
See: http://www.saharamarathon.org/desktopdefault.aspx?fl=1

More than 200 Sahrawis ask Spain for political asylum

Mon Dec 4, 8:19 AM ET  MADRID (AFP) – More than 200 people from the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara have asked Spain for political asylum after reaching the Canary Islands in small boats.
The Sahrawis are young people who in the previous 18 months took part in demonstrations demanding the independence of the Western Sahara and say they fled repression by Morocco’s security forces, the Spanish daily El Pais reported Monday.
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Fiji, 30 November 2006 – Seminar, UN Special Committee on Decolonisation

YANUCA ISLAND, Fiji, 30 November -– The UN Special Committee on Decolonization put forward 48 conclusions and recommendations regarding the situation in Non-Self-Governing Territories as it concluded its three-day Pacific Regional Seminar.
A statement by Kamal Fadel, representive of the Frente Polisario – Western Sahara, was presented regarding the issue of the Non-Self-Governing Territory of Western Sahara.
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