Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001049/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Nicolas Bay (ECR), Laurence Trochu (ECR), Guillaume Peltier (ECR)
While we celebrate International Women’s Day, the Polisario Front armed militia continues to seriously undermine the rights and fundamental freedoms of Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf camps in Algeria. The women living in these camps, in particular, are deprived of their most basic rights (such as their right to come and go) and suffer unacceptable violence (sexual abuse, slavery, servitude, etc.).
These inhumane practices are able to continue because of the lack of registration and recording of these populations, which Algeria still refuses to do, disregarding its obligations as a host country and completely ignoring the calls of the United Nations Security Council in its resolutions since 2011.
- 1.Will the Commission take measures to sanction the Polisario Front and condemn these actions?
- 2.What specific steps will it take to persuade Algeria to accept that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees swiftly registers and conducts a census of the populations of the Tindouf camps in due form and in accordance with international standards?
Submitted: 11.3.2025