Sahrawi activists call for end to discrimination, guaranteed rights, independent international monitoring

GENEVA - Two Sahrawi activists voiced a series of concerns before the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday over the human rights situation in occupied Western Sahara, calling for the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA), human rights conventions, and international humanitarian law, an end to all forms of discrimination carried out by the Moroccan occupation against the Sahrawi people, and the granting of independent and sustained access for competent international mechanisms.