WOMEN’S CONFERENCE ON THE WESTERN SAHARA RIGHT FOR RESISTANCE
GUE/NGL INITIATIVE

Wednesday 28th September:

18:30 – 19:30  Welcoming reception in the EP (Member’s restaurant) with speeches by:

 – Angela Vallina GUE/NGL MEP and Member of the Committee on Women’s rights

 – Suelma Beiruk, Vice-President of the Pan-African Parliament

 – Mildred Jantjies, Executive Secretary of the Pan African Women's Organisation

 – Pierre Galand, chair of the EUCOCO Task Force (European Conference for support and solidarity with the Saharawi people)

Thursday 29th September morning:

9:30 – 12:30     conference (room PHS 1C051).

Interpretation EN, ES, AR, FR. Passive PT and IT

9:00 to 9:10 Welcoming by GUE/NGL Chair Gabi Zimmer and Suelma Beiruk, Vice-President of the Pan-African Parliament

9:10 to 9:30 Introduction to the conference 

 – GUE/NGL MEP Angela Vallina (FEMM Member)

 – Mildred Jantjies, Executive Secretary of the Pan African Women's Organisation (PAWO-SARO)

–  Jira Bulahi, Sahrawi Ambassador to Spain and Member of the National Secretariat of Frente Polisario   

9:30 – 10:15 The empowerment of the Sahrawi women during the war and in exile: the experience of the UNMS

– Jadiyetu El Mohtar, responsible on international department of UNMS (National Union of Sahrawi Women)

Debate

10:20 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:30 Sahrawi women under Moroccan occupation: testimonies of violation of women’s rights.

– Sahrawi woman from the Occupied Territories

– Irantzu Mendia Azkue, professor at the Basque Country University. Co-author of the study: In occupied land. Memory and resistance of women in Western Sahara.

11:30 – 12:20 The importance of the international solidarity with the Sahrawi Women

– GUE/NGL MEP Paloma López, vice-chair of the EP Intergroup on Western Sahara 

– Eleonora Forenza, GUE/NGL MEP and Member of the Committee on Women’s Rights

– Nouria Hafsi, President of the National Union of Algerian Women (UNFA)

– Ophélie Ingarao, member of the secretariat of the EUCOCO (European Conference for support and solidarity with the Saharawi people)

12:20 – 12:30 Closing session: conclusions and final declaration

– GUE/NGL MEP Miguel Viegas, Member of the Committee on Women’s Rights, Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean

– Warda Hamoudi, responsible on empowerment and training of UNMS

For more information and registration (only registered guests will be able to attend the meeting) please contact: [email protected]