Western Sahara, a non-self-governing territory, is witnessing an intensification of Moroccan occupation policies marked by militarization, surveillance, and the suppression of civil and political freedoms. This escalation coincides with ongoing United Nations Security Council consultations and the fiftieth anniversary of Sahrawi National Unity. Amid these developments, a recently circulated United...
Why the Frente POLISARIO’s Expanded Proposal Represents the Only Credible Path to Peace Adala UK | October 2025 As the United Nations Security Council prepares to deliberate the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), two competing frameworks have emerged one...
London, 20 October 2025 The British human rights organisation Adala UK has called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to take a principled stand in support of international law by recognising the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), as Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara reaches its 50th year. In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister, Adala UK...
London, Adala UK welcomes the recent response from the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) regarding concerns raised by the organisation over the filming of The Odyssey, a major Hollywood production that included scenes shot in Dakhla, a city located in the occupied territory of Western Sahara. In...
London, Adala UK, a British non-governmental organisation dedicated to documenting and raising awareness of human rights violations against the Sahrawi people in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara, has formally written to Rt Hon Hamish Falconer MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, urging...
Adala UK has expressed its strong opposition to the recent decision by the European Union to sign and provisionally apply a new agreement with the Kingdom of Morocco, arguing that it represents a clear breach of the rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and a setback for the EU’s...
Adala UK has today sent a formal letter to Airbnb welcoming the platform’s recent correction of geographical references to cities in Western Sahara, which are no longer labelled as part of Morocco. The change, reported by Africa Intelligenceon 31 July 2025, brings Airbnb's mapping more in line with the position of...
The recent revelations surrounding the marketing and sale of agricultural products grown in occupied Western Sahara have once again drawn attention to the continued and unlawful exploitation of the territory’s natural resources. On 21 July 2025, the Spanish Federation of Consumers and Users (CECU) and the national farmers’ union COAG...
Adala UK has formally written to the editor of The Times to express serious concerns over an article published on 20 February 2025, which misrepresented key facts about the Western Sahara conflict and the status of the Polisario Front. The article, which focused on the controversy surrounding a film shoot in Dakhla, referred to...
Adala UK firmly condemns the intensifying campaign of defamation targeting Sahrawi human rights defender Taleb Alisalem known online as “Taleb Sahara” and the dangerous discourse aimed at delegitimizing his legitimate activism. The recent wave of baseless accusations portraying him as racially divisive or aligned with far-right ideologies is not an...