Sahrawi Youth Union
| Sahrawi Youth Union Unión de la Juventud de Saguía el-Hamra y Río de Oro |
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| Motto | "Unity, Struggle, Liberty" |
| Formation | 1984 |
| Type | Network for Sahrawi refugee students |
| Headquarters | Tindouf |
| Location |  Algeria |
| Official languages | Hassānīya, Spanish |
| General Secretary | Musa Salma |
| Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic |
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Sahrawi Youth Union, also known as UJSARIO (its Spanish abbreviation for Unión de la Juventud de SAguia el Hamra y RIo de Oro), is the youth organization of the Polisario Front.
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[edit] Organization
UJSARIO was founded in 1984 through the merger of Unión de Estudiantes Saharauis (Sahrawi Students' Union) and the Polisario Front youth. It operates from the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, organizing youth and students within the exile community, and promoting the interest of the youth within the POLISARIO and the Sahrawi republic.
The work of UJSARIO is divided in different national areas:
- Juvenile groups in the Wilayas, Institutions, Occupied territories and Europe.
- Union of Sahrawi Students.
- Organization and integration of the young women.
- Organization of scouts groups.
- Volunteer groups.
It has extensive international contacts with other youth political or cultural movements, especially in Spain, like the Spanish Youth Council or the Spanish Youth Organization. It is a full member of the Arab Youth Union, General Union of Arab Students, the World Federation of Democratic Youth,[1] the International Falcon Movement - Socialist Educational International,[2] the International Union of the Socialist Youth,[3] the African Youth Union, the Pan African Youth Movement and the Youth for Development and Cooperation (YDC). It campaigns for a free Western Sahara, and tries to organize international youth exchanges and opportunities for refugee Sahrawis to study abroad.
Its present general secretary is Musa Salma.[4]
[edit] Objectives
- Educate the Sahrawi human being free and worthy.
- Validate the young people dialogue according to reality.
- Participation of all the youth in the field of the struggle and construction of the liberation.
- Increase the amity links with all the organizations, councils, student groups and youth groups abroad, to spread the Sahrawi cause worldwide and cooperate mutually.
- Support the Sahrawi youth in the Occupied Territories and achieve that the human rights organizations and the media could visit them and destroy the media blockage imposed by Morocco, as well as guaranteeing the continuinity of the work of the external organization.
- Persevere the personal-national resistance, and establish it as the fundamental base of the customs and traditions of the Sahrawi society.
- Attention to the childhood and the youth, as well as develop the work of the student groups abroad.
- Prepare the new generations of Sahrawi boys and girls, youth and students; train them and assure that they are ready to work for their people and it's just cause.
- Use of all the mechanisms for the continuity of the struggle and assume the future responsibilities in the government of a free and independent Sahara.
- Programation of activities that require the participation of the youth, and that coincide with the general objectives of the UJSARIO.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ WDFY African Member Organizations
- ^ IFM-SI memberfees situation 2009
- ^ IUSY World Congress 2010 - Booklet
- ^ "Celebración del VII Congreso Nacional de la UJSARIO". UJSARIO-Dakhla. 2009-12-14. http://ujsariodajla.blogspot.com/2009/12/celebracion-del-vii-congreso-nacional.html. Retrieved 2010-10-16.(Spanish)
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