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Ms Idagja Lachgare detained
Ms Idagja Lachgare, has been prevented from travelling to Ireland to attend the conference. Idagja Lachgare is a member of the executive office of the Association Sahraouie des Victimes des Violations Graves des Droits de l’Homme Commises par l’Etat du Maroc – ASVDH (Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State).
Idagja Lachgare was prevented from travelling by Moroccan authorities at Terminal 3 of Mohammed V International Airport. She was scheduled to travel to Ireland to participate as a guest speaker at a conference entitled “Global Resource, Human Rights and Development: The Conflict of Western Sahara” on 3 April 2009, having been invited by Ethical Devlopment Action (EDA).
Previously, Idagja Lachgare was reportedly the victim of enforced disappearances. Between 1980 and 1991, she spent almost eleven years in various secret detention centres in Morocco and Western Sahara.
Front Line Online Exhibition
Front Line's online photographic exhibition entitled 'Defending Life with Life' is full of powerful images, including some from Western Sahara.
Front Line is the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders.
Front Line was founded in Dublin in 2001 with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders at risk, people who work, non-violently, for any or all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Front Line aims to address some of the needs identified by defenders themselves, including protection, networking, training and access to international bodies that can take action on their behalf.
Mirjam Hirzel's new article.
International Development and Food Policy Student, Mirjam Hirzel, carried out her work experience in the Saharawi refugee camps. She has written an article detailing the conflict entitled 'Divided by the Wall of Shame'.
Toby Shelley unable to attend EDA conference