Monday, July 6, 2009

SAHARAWI WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE ATTENDED AN IMPORTANT SEMIMAR IN THE ITALIAN SENATE

Mrs. Fatma Mahfoud, Saharawi Deputy--Representative for Italy has participated very recently in an important Seminar on the question of Western Sahara that was held at the headquarters of the Italian Senate on the initiative of the Italian Association for Human Rights (CISP), the Western Sahara Section, in collaboration with the Parliamentary Friends of the Saharawi People in Italy, according to a source of the Polisario Front Representation in Italy.
"The aim of the seminar was to inform the Italian civil society about this forgotten drama in the Western Sahara, through this study day organized under the theme: the Italian civil society and the international law, in the case of Western Sahara" , CISP specified.
Fatma Mahfud in her intervention in the seminar has spoken about the important role are playing the saharawi women in the struggle for peace and justice in the Africa´s last colony whom are an example of emancipation in the arab and muslim world and also said " that the international community and specially the European government must put pressure on the moroccan king to implement the United Nations Peace Plan for Western Sahara for solving this problem of decolonization and also to stop the flagrant violations of human rights in the occupied saharawi cities as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have denounced several timed in their annual reports.
Twenty-two university students of Italian human rights of the Bologna city, who recently visited the Saharawi refugee camps, took part in the seminar, the same source said.These intellectuals have submitted a motion to the Italian Deputies and Senate in which they reaffirmed their commitment to defending the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people, as guaranteed by the international law, it added.




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