IUCLS-MACP Report: Case Study on the Sahrawi Refugees in Algeria - Sept 2009
Inter-University Center for Legal Studies/Moroccan American Center for Policy (October 2009) — More than 30 years ago, Spain gave up its colonial rule of the Western Sahara, and the Kingdom of Morocco claimed the area based on historic ties to the tribes that live in the region. Morocco’s claims were then–and still are today–opposed by the Polisario Front, which had previously engaged in hostilities over the region with Spain and challenged Morocco’s desire to reunite with the Western Sahara. As a result of the ensuing conflict and uneasy ceasefire, tens of thousands of refugees have become sequestered in refugee camps in southwest Algeria near the town of Tindouf since 1991. As refugees and as people warehoused on “foreign soil,” the Sahrawi refugees have a substantial number of rights under international law, which, unfortunately, have not been protected by the parties with direct responsibility for their welfare: Algeria, the Polisario Front, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). [Continue Reading...]
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[...] have been evacuated, forced to stay are tens of thousands of Sahrawi refugees, who have been confined to the camps for more than three decades by the Algerian-backed Polisario Front and denied the most basic [...]
[...] have been evacuated, forced to stay are tens of thousands of Sahrawi refugees, who have been confined to the camps for more than three decades by the Algerian-backed Polisario Front and denied the most basic [...]
[...] have been evacuated, forced to stay are tens of thousands of Sahrawi refugees, who have been confined to the camps for more than three decades by the Algerian-backed Polisario Front and denied the most basic [...]
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