WASHINGTON, D.C./Boujdour, Western Sahara, May 27th, 2022 — Amnesty International released a report today, Morocco/Western Sahara: Moroccan authorities assault Sahrawi women activists, about the latest attacks against indigenous peoples in Western Sahara by Moroccan...
WASHINGTON, D.C./Boujdour, Western Sahara, May 26, 2022 — Three US women heading to visit their friends in Boujdour, Western Sahara, were forcibly turned back on May 23rd when they landed at Laayoune Airport. Twelve men and six women Moroccan agents physically...
WASHINGTON, D.C./Boujdour, Western Sahara, May 23, 2022 — A US delegation of women with the JustVisitWestern Sahara initiative is being detained in Western Sahara today by the Moroccan authorities at Laayoune Airport. The US delegation was invited by the Khaya...
WASHINGTON, D.C./Boujdour, Western Sahara, May 15/16, 2022 — At midnight a truck repeatedly crashed into the home of the Khaya Sisters. It smashed the house and garage doors 3 times. Local people stopped the truck from smashing into the front door and halted the...
WASHINGTON, D.C./Boujdour, Western Sahara, May 14, 2022 — Ruth McDonough, the US/British citizen and human rights activist, has been on a solidarity hunger strike in Boujdour, Western Sahara since May 4, 2022. McDonough began the hunger strike in order to bring...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjoU4yuyDHw #Morocco sent an ambulance to the #Khaya home in #Boujdour, purportedly to provide medical services to the #American guest who is on Day 9 of a hunger strike. #stand_with_ruth
WASHINGTON, D.C./Boujdour, Western Sahara, May 11, 2022 — Morocco sent an ambulance to the Khaya home in Boujdour, purportedly to provide medical services to the American guest who is on Day 9 of a hunger strike. Ruth McDonough stopped eating in protest of Moroccan...
WASHINGTON, D.C./Boujdour, Western Sahara, May 4, 2022 – Ruth McDonough, a the US/British citizen, began a hunger strike on Wednesday, May 4, in order to bring attention to human rights abuses occurring in Boujdour, Western Sahara. Dr. Tim Pluta, a US/Irish citizen,...
WASHINGTON, D.C./Boujdour, Western Sahara – On December 15, 2021, Saharawi human rights defenders met in El-Ayune with David Fisher, Political Advisor of the American Embassy in Morocco, specifically to talk about human rights violations in Western Sahara. They...