Women’s and Girl’s Rights. The 2004 Family Code provides that a child’s father is the default legal representative, ... Most of Western Sahara has been under Moroccan control since 1975.

We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of ...

Earlier this month, the Biden administration reaffirmed the United States’ recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, a disputed region on the northwest coast of Africa. The ...

Western Sahara: A Young Girl's Life in a Refugee Camp. 6 October 2011. Fahamu (Oxford) analysis By Senia Bachir Abderahman. I spent my whole childhood, or at least until I was six, thinking that ...

2001 November - King Mohammed starts a controversial tour of Western Sahara, the first by a Moroccan monarch for a decade. ... Follows suicide of 16-year-old girl forced to marry her rapist.

The leader of the Western Sahara’s independence movement has vowed to end a 29-year-old ceasefire with Morocco, citing recent Moroccan border operations as a provocation. Brahim Ghali, leader of ...

In exchange for Morocco normalizing relations with Israel, the Trump administration promised in December 2020 to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Western Sahara's top diplomat is calling on African countries to sanction Morocco after it failed to attend an African Union meeting on the disputed territory. The call ...

Morocco claims the Western Sahara, but Algeria sides with the Polisario, hoping to later negotiate for an outlet to the ocean. Sovereignty in the area currently remains unresolved. . . .” ...

FILE - In this Feb.27, 2011 file photo, pro-independence Polisario Front rebel soldiers pray after sunset in the Western Sahara village of Tifariti. The Moroccan military has intervened in a ...

Israel has recognised Morocco's sovereignty over the disputed territory of Western Sahara and is mulling opening a consulate there, a statement from the Israeli prime minister's office said on Monday.

Morocco and Western Sahara Events of 2023 People march in memory of the victims killed, injured, and missing in Melilla, on June, 24, 2023. in Melilla, Spain.