Morocco exposes at UN blatant human rights violations in Tindouf Camps – The North Africa Post

This is all the more regrettable as Algeria is neither peacekeepers’ contributor nor is it hosting blue helmets. Citing official data from the Department of Peace Operations, the diplomat said that Algeria makes no contribution to UN peacekeeping. She also recalled that in March 2022, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, reiterated, in her oral statement to the Human Rights Council, her serious concerns about human rights violations by the Algerian authorities, indicating: “In Algeria, I am concerned by the increasing restrictions on fundamental freedoms, including the increase in arrests and detentions of human rights defenders.”In September 2022, the Working Group on Forced or Involuntary Disappearances criticized Algeria for its serious human rights violations. She further stressed that the whimsical referendum, “the Algerian delegation is still dreaming of,” is definitively dead and buried. The Security Council has no longer mentioned a referendum option in all its resolutions adopted during the last two decades.