Støttekomiteen for Vest-Sahara

Work as volunteer archeologist?

University of East Anglia, UK, looks for volunteers for a project in Western Sahara.

Published 08 March 2010

Human rights defender appeals EU to stop illegal fisheries

Clear message from Sahrawi human rights defender Elkouria Amidane to the new EU Fisheries Commissioner, Maria Damanaki, on Swedish national TV today.

Published 06 March 2010

Here is the secret legal opinion from the EU Parliament

Here is the 11 page statement from the European Parliament's Legal Service which slams the European Commission. The statement - concluding that EU fisheries in occupied Western Sahara under its current shape is in violation of international law - has been kept from the public for 7 months.

Published 24 February 2010

Fugro rejected by University of Oslo

During the Business Days at the University of Oslo yesterday, one exhibition stand was left empty. The Norwegan firm has carried out illegal oil exploration offshore occupied Western Sahara.

Published 05 February 2010

Aminatou is on hunger strike

Human Rights activist has been expelled from her home country, Western Sahara. She demands to be able to return.

Published 17 November 2009

Swedish Human Rights Award to Sahrawi HR defender Brahim Dahane

The human rights activist Brahim Dahane, human rights defenders in Western Sahara, is this year's winner of the Swedish Government's Per Anger award.

Published 03 November 2009

Key ring convict appeals for assistance

The human rights activits Naama Asfari asks for Norwegian and international help to attend trials against Sahrawis. In August, Asfari was sentenced to jail for carrying a keyring with the Sahrawi flag.

Published 31 October 2009

Swedish Social Democratic Party demands recognition of SADR

The party congress of the Swedish Social Democratic Party demands that Sweden recognise the Western Sahara republic.

Published 30 October 2009

Ireland responds to concern for the jailed Sahrawis

Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has discussed the matter over the 7 jailed Sahrawi human rights defenders, and says the issue is being discussed between the EU and Morocco.

Published 23 October 2009

Abdellah demonstrated against the plundering

As the unemployed 32 year old Abdellah El Boukzati demonstrated against the plundering of Western Sahara, Moroccan police intervened.

Published 23 October 2009

US senators ask King to release Sahrawis

3 US Senators today sent a letter to Kind Mohamed VI, asking for the release of the 7 Sahrawis who were jailed for visiting their countrymen in the Sahrawi refugee camps.

Published 23 October 2009

Asks the Norwegian government to intervene

Leading human rights activists from Western Sahara were last week subjected to serious violations of their rights by Moroccan authorities. 18 Norwegian organisations, including all 8 political youth parties, ask the Norwegian Minister for Foreign Affairs to protest.

Published 19 October 2009

Sahrawi students spoke for referendum in the UN

Four Sahrawi students spoke before the UN committee for decolonisation this week. Read their talks here.

Published 10 October 2009

Norwatch: Rich on Plunder

The Norwegian Government Pension Fund has invested billions of Norwegian kroners in companies that participate in the plunder of Western Sahara. An examination carried out by Norwatch shows that Pension Fund companies are behind two-thirds of all phosphate purchases in the occupied country. Norwatch, 06.10.2009.

Published 09 October 2009

Norwatch: PGS Stumbles into Western Sahara

The Norwegian seismic services company PGS has entered in on the ownership side of the Irish oil company San Leon Energy. The funds placed by PGS will help enable increased oil exploration in occupied Western Sahara.

Published 22 September 2009

Western Sahara friend Ted Kennedy wins Nansen Refugee Award

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees announced today that its annual Nansen Refugee Award will be awarded to the late Senator Edward Kennedy for his achievements as an unparalleled champion of refugee protection and assistance. For years Kennedy fought for the rights of the Saharawi people and refugees around the world. Press release, 15 Sept 2009.

Published 15 September 2009

Mass detention of Saharawi activists

In a wave of arrests and harassments has in the last few weeks taken place in Western Sahara. Today 10 leading human rights activists were detained when they were going to attend a trial against a colleague.

Published 27 August 2009

Western Sahara friend Edward M. Kennedy dies

The Lion of the Senate and one of USAs most influential Senators, Edward M. Kennedy (77) died from cancer yesterday. Kennedy has for many years been one of the staunchest supporters of Western Sahara in American politics.

Published 26 August 2009

Kicked out of airport and forced home

The Sahrawi youth who were to attend a peace seminar in London - and who were refused exit from Morocco - have got a tough treatment. First they were forcibly expelled from Agadir airport. Thursday night they were taken in a police escort all the way back to the occupied territories of Western Sahara.

Published 07 August 2009

Amnesty reacts to Morocco travel restrictions

Statement from Amnesty International today demands investigations into the events surrounding the forcible expulsion of 6 young Sahrawis from Agadir airport to Western Sahara.

Published 07 August 2009