Hunger Strike for the Rights of the Sahawari People

I've just found out that Saharawi political detainees in the El-Ayoune prison are entering the third week of a hunger strike to raise awareness of human rights abuses in Western Sahara.

As I hadn't heard about it until now, I thought perhaps I should do what I can to raise awareness of their hunger strike and the reason for it.

According to War on Want

Morocco has occupied Western Sahara for over 30 years. Tens of thousands of Saharawi people are living in a state of siege and face appalling human rights abuses and repression. In addition 165,000 refugees live on an inhospitable plain in the Sahara desert. Temperatures range from the scorching to the freezing, water is scarce, access to the outside world is difficult. The people of Western Sahara have been forced to live here, struggling to return to a homeland where they can determine their own future.

Visit the Western Sahara homepage to find out more.

All of these causes are important, but there are so many people being oppressed by those in power, whether in Morocco, Sudan, Israel-Palestine, Burma, Tibet or elsewhere. It is hard to know what we can do except to let these peple know they are not forgotten and perhaps send aid or purchase their goods and products.