SOUTH-AFRICAN WOMEN REAFFIRM THEIR SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY WITH THEIR SISTERS IN WESTERN SAHARA

The National Union of  Saharawi Women´s International Officer, Suelma Beiruk, has just been received in the South-African capital by the President of the ANC´s Women´s League who has reaffirmed their support and solidarity with the people and women óf the Africa´s last colony: Western Sahara.
The President of the ANC Women's League and Minister of the Basic Education, Ms. Angie Motshekga, renewed last friday the firm support of her country to the just cause of the Saharawi people, according to the Saharawi Embassy in South Africa.

During her meeting with a Saharawi delegation at headquarters of the SADR Embassy in Pretoria, Ms. Motshekga confirmed that the supporting position of her country “stayed in the past and will remain in the future”
She saluted struggle of the Saharawi women, considering it a “unique example of resistance in the world”
The president of the ANC Women's League welcomed her invitation to attend the Saharawi women´s  conference which is scheduled next April 20th to 24th, adding that it will certainly be an “occasion to strengthen the close ties between the ANC women's league and UNSW”
 Mrs. Suelma Beiruk briefed struggle of the Saharawi women in the refugee camps occupied territories of Western Sahara, as well as the next congress of Saharawi women.
The meeting also focused on the latest developments of the Saharawi cause and bilateral relations between the peoples and governments of both countries.

SAHARAWI WOMEN CONMEMORATE THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN´S DAY

The Saharawi Women as the majority female all over the world have conmemorated the International Women´s Day with different activities.

Western Saharan Women not only those that are living in the refugee camps but also those whom are ressisting the moroccan military occupation and those who are living abroad have celebrated this important day not only because this year is the centenary of the official declaration of the International Women´s Day but also because in an anniversary of the first saharawi martyr: Bachir Lehlawi.

This pictures were taken in a conmemoration of the International Women´s Day celebrated in the spanish capital, Madrid, where the saharawi human rights activist, Digdja Lachgare, has been invited by a spanish NGO. In such event, Mrs. Lachgare has given her personal experience of suffering due to her more that twelve years of imprisonment in the moroccan prisons and she has spoken about the flagrant violations of human rights in the occupided cities of Western Sahara and she launched an urgent appeal to the international opinion to put pressure on the moroccan government for stopping in its repressive policy and to respect the international resolutions and the human rights in the occupided cities of Western sahara and to release all the saharawi prisoners of conciousness.

The Saharawi Women as the majority female all over the world have conmemorated the International Women´s Day with different activities.

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This year marks the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. The day was commemorated for the first time on 19 March 1911 in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, following its establishment during the Socialist International meeting the prior year. More than one million women and men attended rallies on that first commemoration.

Since then, International Women’s Day has been celebrated in many countries around the world. It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. It is an occasion for looking back on past struggles and accomplishments, and more importantly, for looking ahead to the untapped potential and opportunities that await future generations of women.

Saharawi women are known by her example of emanipation and empowerment in the arab and muslim world and they wish to strenghthen the ties and relationship with all the women´s organizations and all the peace loving countries for struggling together for a just a peaceful world.

SAHARAWI WOMEN CONDEMN THE MOROCCAN BRUTAL REPRESSION IN OCCUPIDED DAKHLA

The Association of Saharawi Women in Spain (AMSE) expresses its strongest condemnation of the acts of vandalism carried out by moroccan settlers against the Saharawi civilians in the occupied city of Dakhla. According to eyewitnesses who have been in telephone contact with AMSE, affirmed us that on the night of Saturday, February 26, thousands of Moroccan settlers, escorted by numerous Moroccan army vehicles have assaulted the neighborhoods where the Sahrawi population living mostly by burning private cars, burglarizing homes and businesses and creating a true chaos in the occupied city of Dakhla, generating a real situation of terror and forcing the helpless Saharawi population to leave the city, fleeing into the desert for protecting themselves against the brutal repression of the moroccan settlers.

While the Saharawi people was celebrating with joy and happiness the trirty-fith anniversary of the proclamation of the Saharawi State: the Saharawi Republic, the moroccan occupation authorities tried once again, undermines the cultural identity of Western Sahara and misrepresent the true social and political situation faced by Western Sahara. All this atrocity occurred while the Sahrawi people organized a festival in the city of Dakhla and at the end of the members of the Moroccan occupation launched this wave of settler violence against civilians Moroccan Sahara.

 Saharawi Women take the opportunity to make an urgent appeal to all the peace loving countries and the whole  international community, that under the new changes that are being generated against dictatorial regimes especially in North Africa, to put pressure on the Moroccan government to respect the international law and particularly human rights in occupied Western Sahara.