International Bureau for the Respect of Human Rights in Western Sahara

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.[2]

International Bureau for the Respect of Human Rights in Western Sahara
Bureau International pour le Respect des Droits de l'Homme au Sahara Occidental
FoundedMarch 16, 2002, Geneve, Switzerland
TypeNon-profit
NGO
Location
  • Geneve, Switzerland
Key people
Christian Viret, President[1]
Websitehttp://www.birdhso.org/ (in French)

Objectives

BIRDSHO objectives according to its statutes are:[3]

  • 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 among others) 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.[4]

See also

References
  1. Comité exécutif BIRDSHO, 18 March 2011 (in French)
  2. Membres correspondants Archived 2013-04-14 at Archive.today BIRDHSO (in French)
  3. Statuts du Bureau International pour le Respect des Droits de l’Homme au Sahara Occidental BIRDHSO, 16 March 2002 (in French)
  4. Activités Archived 2013-04-14 at Archive.today BIRDHSO (in French)
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