"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. " begins with these words, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, on 10 December 1948 by the UN General Assembly was adopted.
is every year to commemorate this day of "International Human Rights Day" was held to take the numerous organizations as an opportunity to consider human rights situations around the world critically and to draw attention to current hot topics.
On 1 December 2006, therefore, the educational center of the Vienna Social Democrats held a panel discussion in which our guests grappled with the issue of human rights violations in Western Sahara.
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discussion, moderated by Petra Bayr, Member of Parliament and Political Development of the Social Democratic Party spokeswoman
- Aminetu Haidar, human rights activist from the occupied areas of Morocco,
- Mag.a Barbara Prammer, First President of the National Council,
- Mag Karin Scheele, Member of European Parliament and
- Mag Norman Spitz Egger from the North-South Institute.
1975 after Franco's death Spain pulled back from its former colony of Western Sahara. The independence movement in 1973 as against Spain Polisario Front, founded in February 1976 called the "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic" from. Morocco occupied in 1976, the northern two-thirds of the Western Sahara region in 1979, following the withdrawal of Mauritania, the rest of the territory. Despite UN advance the status of the area is still not clear, and about 100,000 Sahauris live in the occupied territories, in refugee camps.
