CODESA, which works on the ground for the last 6 years in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, is considered by the Moroccan authorities as illegal, and was denied the right to the constitution last year.
Aminatu Haidar, an imminent human rights activist, and winners of many human rights prizes at the international level, had been arrested and tortured several times by the Moroccan colonial authorities because of her political position on the question of Western Sahara, and also engaged in several hunger strikes in prisons.
Since 2006, she started an international campaigns to raise awareness about the plight of the Saharawi people and the human rights violations in the occupied zones of Western Sahara. She visited so far Europe, US and South Africa in the African country.
Aminatu haidar, is expected to receive the Robert Kennedy award for human rights of 2008, tomorrow in the U.S capital Washington, and will be handed to her personally by the widow of Robert Kennedy.
Professor of politics and international studies at the American University of San Francesco, Stephen Zunes, told the National newspaper of Emirates that this award would reveal a terrible reality of human rights that is prevailing now in Western Sahara, which needs to be made public.
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