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...
Adala UK strongly condemns the recent article published by HortiDaily on 6 May 2025, titled “Dakhla growers urged to diversify their markets”. The article presents a commercial narrative about agricultural production and export in Dakhla, without any mention of the legal status of the territory as part of occupied Western Sahara, or the serious...
Adala UK welcomes and fully endorses the official statement issued by the African National Congress (ANC) on 19 July 2025, which firmly condemns the misuse of the South African flag by the Kingdom of Morocco in a foreign political engagement that sought to legitimise its illegal occupation of Western Sahara. The ANC’s position...
Adala UK has sent a formal letter to the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), raising serious concerns over the filming of the upcoming Hollywood production The Odyssey in Dakhla, a city located in occupied Western Sahara. The letter highlights that Western Sahara remains a non-self-governing territory under international law, and...
On the occasion of Nelson Mandela International Day, Adala UK honours the enduring legacy of a global icon whose life was devoted to justice, equality, and the inalienable right of peoples to self-determination. Nelson Mandela’s principled resistance to apartheid and colonialism remains a moral compass for human rights defenders and freedom...