Morocco: Sahrawi NGOs Hail Freedom

Sahrawi human rights activists and development non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have applauded the freedom which is governed in Morocco by an evolving and credible institutional and legal framework.

Development Diaries understands that in a letter sent to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, the NGOs said, ‘As local Sahrawi organisations operating freely on their soil and in their country, Morocco, we stress the normal nature of the human rights situation prevailing in the Moroccan Sahara.

‘What is certain is that we are working in a promising and evolving context and that we also have an area of freedom governed by an evolving, credible, legal, and institutional framework’.

This news platform observed that the Sahrawi NGOs denounced the double-standard of the Polisario and its Algerian sponsor in tackling human rights issues, saying the enemies of Morocco’s territorial integrity use human rights for political ends serving their separatist scheme.

They added, ‘While spreading lies about the human rights situation in the Moroccan Sahara, the Polisario and Algiers continue to refuse to provide basic data on the human rights situation in the Tindouf camps.

‘We, the NGOs working on the ground and living among the Sahrawi population, know better the situation of human rights in the Moroccan Sahara than the Polisario and Algeria whose accusations are merely hot-air and part of a politically-motivated campaign’.

They also called for the respect of the rights and freedoms of the Sahrawi population detained in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, situated in Southern Algeria.

The Sahrawi NGOs also said that they were engaged in ‘close and constructive interaction’ with Morocco’s National Human Rights Council (CNDH).

Source: North Africa Post

Photo source: Sam Greenhalgh

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