Strasbourg 13/12/12
The European Parliament has expressed its concern at the deterioration in the human rights situation in Western Sahara, through an amendment to the annual resolution on Human Rights in the World, approved today.

Commenting on the vote, Dr. Mohamed Sidati, Polisario’s representative for Europe, said, “It is very significant that the European Parliament, as the democratic voice of the European Union – which itself has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize has again called for the fundamental rights of the people of Western Sahara,

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Special for CNN,  December 13, 2012

Javier Bardem first visited the Western Sahara in 2008 for the Sahara International Film Festival, the only one of its kind to take place in a refugee camp. He went there knowing  little about the conflict in Western Sahara and returned from this visit with a determination to speak out about the Moroccan abuse of Saharawi rights and openly advocate for a resolution to the conflict.

Report and interview with Javier Bardem >>

by Brahim Dahane
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 10 November 2012

Twenty-three of those arrested by Moroccan police two years ago and subsequently tortured still languish in jail awaiting trial (…cont.)

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Report of the judicial mission of observation to the trial of the 24 from Salé
RABAT 23 – 26 October 2012

Translated by Australia Western Sahara Association

Report of judicial observers >>

By Romoke W. Ahmad, 4 November 2012

Saharawi Republic Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Oubi Bachir, talks on the move for self-determination of Western Sahara people and the Moroccan obstacle among other things…..(cont.)

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About the project:  documentary makers, journalist Emanuela Zuccalà  and award winning Italian photographer Simona Ghizzoni write “JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I’M ALIVE’ is a multimedia 25 minutes documentary that for the first time collects Saharawi women’s stories and voices with a feminine sensibility, combining video footage clips, photographs, music and valuable stock material.”

Aim:  To raise $12,200 – campaign ends in 18 days on 22 November

Total so far =$5,662  You can donate here >>

Latest news: $1,000 has just been donated by the film director and scriptwriter Maite Bulgari, passionate about documentary and committed to promote women’s rights around the world with her NGO called Agenda Sant’Egidio.

RFK Centre for Justice and Human Rights, Press Release

Washington 2 November:  Retaliatory violence by the Moroccan government continues to rise during United Nations Envoy’s visit to militarily-controlled Western Sahara.

RFK Human Rights Laureate Aminatou Haidar is the latest victim of systemic violence and police brutality by the Moroccan government against the Sahrawi people. The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center) has received multiple reports in the last week…(cont.)

Video of attack on Aminatou Haidar >>

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Salon,  Oct 19, 2012
By Andrew O’Hehir
“….Since 2008, when he first visited the Algerian refugee camps where up to 150,000 Sahrawis — the formerly nomadic people native to the Western Sahara — have lived for more than three decades, Bardem has become a leading international activist on an issue that few in the Western world even know about, let alone want to touch   (….cont.)

Read more about Javier Bardem’s advocacy for the Saharawis >>