AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoUN Human Rights Council: South Africa urged stronger action in occupied Western Sahara, citing arbitrary detention, torture and fair-trial failures against Sahrawi defenders, and stressing the need to protect the right to self-determination. Diplomacy & UN process: A group of 40 states reiterated support for Morocco’s “full and complete sovereignty” and said the Sahara dispute must be handled under UN Security Council talks based on Morocco’s Autonomy Initiative and Resolution 2797. EU-facing climate justice debate: British experts and Sahrawi officials argued that occupation worsens climate risks and that renewable projects cannot “greenwash” dispossession or replace decolonization and self-determination. Human rights monitoring in Tindouf: NGOs called for independent oversight in Tindouf camps, alleging torture, discrimination and child recruitment, and urged unrestricted UN access. Ceuta-linked Spain politics: Spain’s Congress is set to advance a bill granting nationality to Sahrawis born under Spanish administration amid heightened tension with Morocco over the Ceuta crisis. Resource exploitation pressure: Western Sahara Resource Watch urged the UN to bring natural-resources exploitation into the political process ahead of Security Council decisions.
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