Adala UK warmly welcomes the arrival today of a group of Saharawi children known as the Messengers of Peace to London Heathrow Airport, where they were received at 13:30 by members of the Saharawi community and supporters of the Western Sahara cause. These children come from the Saharawi refugee camps in...
Adala UK strongly condemns the recent article published by Condé Nast Traveler on 2 June 2025, titled “Qué ver en Dakhla, Marruecos: el paraíso del kitesurf” ("What to see in Dakhla, Morocco: the kitesurfing paradise"). The article repeatedly refers to the city of Dakhla as being located in "southern Morocco," completely disregarding the internationally recognised status...
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 welcomes the strong and timely statement by Mary Lawlor, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, expressing deep concern over the ongoing violence and repression targeting Sahrawi human rights defenders in the occupied territories of Western Sahara. On Friday, Lawlor took to social media...
Adala UK expresses deep concern over the continued illegal exploitation of natural resources in Western Sahara by the Moroccan occupying power and the worsening humanitarian situation facing Saharawi refugees. Recent developments underscore a dual injustice: the enrichment of Morocco and foreign actors through extractive activities in the occupied territory, and...
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...
The health and dignity of Sahrawi political prisoners continue to be systematically undermined by Moroccan prison authorities, as evidenced by a recent and deeply troubling incident involving Abdallah El Wali Lakfawni, a member of the Gdeim Izik group currently held in Kenitra Central Prison. According to informations received on Friday, 20 June 2025, Mr. Lakfawni...
Adala UK – June 2025 Adala UK expresses grave concern over the worsening situation of Saharawis with disabilities living under Moroccan occupation in the Non-Self-Governing Territory of Western Sahara. Despite Morocco’s ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2009, persons with disabilities of Saharawi origin...
The United Kingdom, alongside allies such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Norway, has recently taken the unprecedented step of imposing sanctions on two far-right Israeli ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, for inciting extremist violence against Palestinians. This marks an important recognition of the serious human rights violations occurring...