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International Bureau for the Respect of Human Rights in Western Sahara

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Type
  
Non-profit NGO

Location
  
Geneve, Switzerland

Founded
  
March 16, 2002, Geneve, Switzerland

Key people
  
Christian Viret, President

Website
  
http://www.birdhso.org/ (French)

BIRDHSO (French: Bureau International pour le Respect des Droits de l'Homme au Sahara Occidental; Spanish: Oficina Internacional para el Respeto de los Derechos Humanos en el Sahara Occidental; English: International Bureau for the Respect of Human Rights in Western Sahara) is a Switzerland-based human rights organization campaigning against the human rights violations in Western Sahara. It has also delegations in France, Italy and Spain.

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Objectives

BIRDSHO objectives according to its statutes are:

  • Assuring worldwide information as complete as possible about human rights violations in the framework of the Western Sahara conflict.
  • Denouncing to international organisms (UN, ICRC...) every human rights violation in the region.
  • Assuring a permanent contact with international human rights organizations for being able to intervene at Moroccan authorities.
  • Sustaining morally and materially the families and victims of Forced disappearance.
  • Supporting by any means the work of Sahrawi human rights organizations in the occupied territories and abroad.

    • El Karama

    Before the BIRDHSO official foundation in 2002, and after a reunion in November 1993 in Rome, the collective had been releasing every year (since 1994) 3 or 4 informative bulletins entitled "El Karama" (Arabic, والكرامة; English, The Dignity) on the human rights situation in Western Sahara.

    References

    International Bureau for the Respect of Human Rights in Western Sahara Wikipedia
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