{"id":5191,"date":"2017-11-14T15:54:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T15:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=5191"},"modified":"2017-11-14T16:36:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T16:36:20","slug":"morocco-unhrc-periodic-review-2016-report-submitted-adala-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=5191","title":{"rendered":"Morocco: UNHRC Periodic Review 2016, Report submitted by Adala UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Between February and October 2014, members of Adala UK in Western Sahara<br \/>\ninterviewed more than 300 Saharawi children aged 4-17 and families living in<br \/>\nthe Occupied Territories to investigate the difficulties faced by Saharawi<br \/>\nchildren. In October and November 2014, another member of Adala UK, visited<br \/>\nthe Occupied Territories and interviewed children, verifying the situation in<br \/>\nschools as published by Adala UK&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>This report concentrates on abductions, detentions and violence to which<br \/>\nSahrawi children are subjected. From all the interviews, we have selected<br \/>\ncertain statements to represent a range of the human rights violations suffered.<br \/>\nSome testimonies had to be omitted as many families are too afraid to publish<br \/>\ntheir claims. A common thread in all interviews was the fears held by the<br \/>\nSahrawi children, as well as the daily verbal, psychological and physical abuse<br \/>\nto which they are subjected.<\/p>\n<p>In the cities where the interviews took place a large presence of Moroccan<br \/>\nauthorities, both uniformed and plain-clothes, was noted by members of Adala<br \/>\nUK in Western Sahara. During many of the interviews, police cars and officers<br \/>\nsurrounded the family house. Through constant intimidation, the Moroccan<br \/>\noccupation forces try to instil fear in order to prevent the families and children<br \/>\nfrom making their claims&#8230;..<a href=\"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Adala-UK_UPR27_MAR_E_Main_Rev-1-1.pdf\">READ FULL REPORT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Between February and October 2014, members of Adala UK in Western Sahara interviewed more than 300 Saharawi children aged 4-17 and families living in the Occupied Territories to investigate the difficulties faced by Saharawi children. In October and November 2014, another member of Adala UK, visited the Occupied Territories and interviewed children, verifying the situation in schools as published by Adala UK&#8230;.. This report concentrates on abductions, detentions and violence to which Sahrawi children are subjected. From all the interviews, we have selected certain statements to represent a range of the human rights violations suffered. Some testimonies had to be omitted as many families are too afraid to publish their claims. A common thread in all interviews was the fears held by the Sahrawi children, as well as the daily verbal, psychological and physical abuse to which they are subjected. In the cities where the interviews took place a large presence of Moroccan authorities, both uniformed and plain-clothes, was noted by members of Adala UK in Western Sahara. During many of the interviews, police cars and officers surrounded the family house. Through constant intimidation, the Moroccan occupation forces try to instil fear in order to prevent the families and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5194,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions\/5194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}