Disarray in the Polisario’s ranks: A former secret service officer promises overwhelming revelations

Algeria, where are your Saturday people, and where are your Sunday people?

‘Algeria once had 140,000 Jews. Algeria, where are your Jews?’ The question was raised by Hillel Neuer – an outspoken defender of Israel and frequent critic of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Neuer’s query was met with silence. The primary reason for the departure of Algerian Jews is, of course, that some 850,000 […]

UN Special Rapporteur calls on Algeria to release human rights activists, end harassment and repression

Ms. Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, has called on Algerian authorities to release all human rights militants imprisoned for the exercise of their freedom of expression, opinion and association. In her preliminary findings disclosed this week following her ten-day visit to the country, the UN official belied the […]

Why Sahara should be dropped from UN’s fourth committee agenda

Maintaining the Sahara issue on the decolonization agenda of the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly is an anomaly that runs against the UN charter and the mandate of the Security Council. Listing the Sahara issue on the decolonization agenda is an aberration that is contradicted with Article 12 of the UN charter which […]