Women associations urge for lifting siege on sequestered populations in Polisario camps
Morocco, Politics, 3/10/2000

A group of women associations in Laayoune have launched an appeal to international women organizations and human rights-advocacy bodies to take action for the lifting of the siege imposed on women who are sequestered in the Tindouf camps and for their return to their homeland in Morocco.

This came in a statement released following a rally in this Moroccan southern city on the occasion of women's international day (March 8).

The associations also denounced human rights violations going on for more than 25 years in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, southwestern Algeria, where women are denied their most basic natural and humanitarian rights.

The group of associations renewed their attachment to the United Nations settlement plan and said all the plan provisions should be respected and all men and women from the southern provinces should be allowed to take part in the UN-projected referendum, by being registered in the voter lists.

The statement also pays tribute to the wise policy followed by King Mohammed VI to perfect Morocco's territorial integrity, expressing attachment to the Alawit throne and their mobilization behind the sovereign to defend the country's unity and sacred values.

For these associations, the perfection of Morocco's territorial integrity is on top of priorities of Sahrawi women who have played a leading part in the struggle for independence.

They also called Sahrawi women to be more mature and vigilant and be up to the challenges to succeed in foiling maneuvers hatched by the enemies of Morocco's territorial unity. The statement was released by the association for family protection, the national league of public and semipublic staff, the association of assistance to handicapped persons, the association of women and development, the Moroccan league of children protection and the association of solidarity for development.

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