Adala UK, has submitted a formal complaint to The Telegraph (letter) regarding a recent article that labelled the Polisario Front as a terrorist organisation. The letter strongly objects to this portrayal, calling it inaccurate, misleading, and harmful to efforts for peace in Western Sahara. The organisation explains that the Polisario Front is...
As a human rights organisation committed to the promotion and protection of international human rights and humanitarian law, Adala UK expresses deep concern over recent attempts to mischaracterise the Polisario Front as a terrorist organisation. Such allegations, including those published in The Telegraph, represent a dangerous form of disinformation that not only...
Adala UK is proud to support Jaimitna, a groundbreaking multimedia artivism project created through the collaboration of FiSahara, the Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara, and a collective of Sahrawi women activists, artists, journalists, architects, and filmmakers. Rooted in human rights, memory, and cultural survival, Jaimitna reclaims and reimagines the Sahrawi tent —...
Adala UK expresses its deep concern over the violent repression of Sahrawi students at Ibn Zohr University in Agadir, Morocco, and strongly condemns the Moroccan authorities’ continued use of academic institutions as instruments of political persecution and intimidation. On 16 June 2025, members of the Moroccan security forces—both in uniform...
Adala UK today calls on the international community to take immediate and effective action to end the use of torture in Western Sahara and to ensure justice and reparations for its victims. The appeal comes on 26 June, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a day that marks the entry into...
Recent decision rendered by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention recently concluded in their Opinion regarding the detention of Ndor Laaroussi (Opinion No. 23/2019), that Laaroussi, connected to the Saharawi Journalist organization Bentili Media Center, had been arrested, tortured, and...
Once again, Morocco has stopped an international observer from entering Western Sahara. Spanish lawyer Cristina Martinez was travelling to the capital El Aaiun in order to observe the trial of a group of young men who were detained for participating in a peaceful protest on 19th July. She was stopped...
“Friday 16th March, 11am, Place de les Nacions, Geneva” The Saharawi people would like to invite you to give greater visibility to their cause and break the information blockade imposed on the Western Sahara conflict by the Kingdom of Morocco and its allies. In 1963, Western Sahara, was included in...
Location Western Sahara is on the Atlantic coast of north-west Africa, between Morocco to the north and Mauritania to the south and east and Algeria to the north-east. Resources Western Sahara is rich in mineral resources, including phosphates. Western Sahara has some of the richest fishing waters in the world. Currently...
In 1963 Western Sahara was listed as a non-self-governing territory by the United Nations. In 1966 the United Nations’ General Assembly adopted its first resolution2 on the territory, urging Spain to organise, as soon as possible and under UN supervision, a referendum on self- determination. In 1975, the International Court of...