The Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs participates in the 17th session of the Council of Human Rights, held in Geneva from May 30 to June 17, 2011.

The 7th round of informal talks on the Sahara will be held from 5 to 7 June in Manhasset in the suburbs of New York. The UN spokesman Martin Nesirky, who announced the meeting on Thursday at the invitation of the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General, Christopher Ross, said that Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and Polisario will attend the meeting.

The Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Mrs. Latifa Akharbach, called on Algeria on Wednesday, during her speech at the opening session of the ministerial summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, to get engaged in negotiations on the Sahara to reach a political solution to the Sahara.

 The Saharawi population of Tindouf camps are subjected to abject living conditions and "dream of one thing: to return to their homeland, Morocco, "said expert Richard Miniter, who visited the Tindouf camps in an article published in the latest issue of the U.S. magazine, Foreign Policy Magazine.

The international human rights watchdog, Amnesty International (AI), denounced the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators of human rights violations in the polisario-run sequestration camps of Tindouf (south-western Algeria).