The International Democratic Center (IDC), an organization bringing together centrist parties of more than 100 countries, said Tuesday before the UN Commission on Human Rights that the Algerian State is responsible for abuses in Tindouf camps perpetrated on Algerian territory.

Participants at a conference Monday in Geneva, as part of the 16th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), stressed that autonomy is a form of self-determination and offers a suitable solution to the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara.

Twelve Sahrawi families benefited, on Friday, from a new family visit flights led by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

The Moroccan delegation expressed its "extreme disappointment" with polisario's refusal to discuss the issue of human rights as part of UN-brokered informal talks on the Sahara, Morocco's Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri said on Wednesday in Malta.

A delegation from the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), is participating in the 16th session of the UN Human Rights Council, which is currently taking place in Geneva.