An interesting document on the current political and human rights situation of the Saharawi population, published by the Robert F.Kennedy Center For Justice and Human Rights:
NOWHERE TO TURN:
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE FAILURE TO MONITOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN WESTERN SAHARA AND TINDOUF REFUGEE CAMPS
Part of the sport equipment that was supposed to arrive at the camps with the SaharaMarathon 2013 charter has been delivered overland by Brahim Chej, one of the Saharawi SaharaMarathon organizers.
SaharaMarathon has its own projects, but many more activities and projects are started and followed by people or associations in some way linked to SaharaMarathon, that collaborates with SaharaMarathon, and that in many cases have known the Saharawis through the SaharaMarathon.
These are the activities of the various groups that took part to the recent [...]
After the cancellation of the marathon we had to wait almost one month to travel to the Saharawi camps, where we met our collaborators, we evaluated together the future of SaharaMarathon, we revised the running projects and laid the foundation of new ones.
The project directly financed by SaharaMarathon in 2012 consisted of the [...]
The Saharawi Government and the organizing committee of the Sahara Marathon have agreed to postpone the Sahara Marathon 2013 by major causes outside the organization. As is well known, the recent war in Mali and the tragic kidnapping occurred in Algeria, have caused a huge international social alarm that forced us to take this sad [...]
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