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Morocco’s Fog Harvesting Project Wins UN Momentum for Change Award

A Moroccan fog water collection project won the 2016 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Momentum for Change Award, local media reported. The fog harvesting project was initiated by Dar Si Hmad, a woman-led NGO, as a solution to water scarcity in some of the most isolated, rural communities in the Anti-Atlas mountain […]

Amnesty International Slams Algeria for Repression of Women’s Rights Groups

Amnesty International has denounced the Algerian authorities’ decision to shut down the offices of two prominent women’s rights organizations, FARD (Femmes Algériennes Revendiquantleurs Droits) and AFEPEC (Association Féministe pourl’Épanouissement de la Personne et l’Exercice de la Citoyenneté). “The targeting of these women’s groups is a shameless attack on the right to freedom of association and […]

Morocco Flatly Rejects any Change of UN Role in Sahara Issue

Morocco flatly rejects any change or modification of the nature of the United Nations’ role in the handling of the Sahara issue and any plots seeking to bury the autonomy plan which could, as recognized by many world powers, fulfil the aspirations of the people in the Western Sahara to run their own affairs in […]