The World Federation of Democratic Youth has been informed that thousands of Sahrawis have left the occupied city of Laayoun to set up tents in the desert to demand their right to self-determination and better treatment in their own country, and they are now encircled by the Moroccan army.

This situation has become extremely dangerous for the Sahrawis who have been denied the right to self-determination first promised by Spain, affirmed by the International Court of Justice, and then promised once again by the United Nations.
The latest tragedy of the death of 14 year old, Nayem el-Gareh, who was shot by Moroccan soldiers this week, must be denounced and not ignored as Nayem joins a long list of Sahrawis who have been imprisoned, tortured and killed by the Moroccan authorities during the Sahrawis last thirty five year struggle for their right to self-determination.

The United Nations needs to take responsibility to protect the Sahrawis in the occupied territories of Western Sahara and it must include the monitoring of human rights in the mandate of its mission in the territory MINURSO, because the UN has caused this tragedy by not complying with its commitments to organize the promised referendum.

WFDY calls upon all its member and friend organizations to respond to the escalating violence by Moroccan authorities against the Sahrawis in occupied Western Sahara. We call upon The United Nations to respond by sending peacekeeping soldiers to protect the vulnerable Sahrawis population. We also join the call of our member organization, UJSARIO, for media reporters, human rights activists and others to go to the occupied territory to report first-hand on the situation.

The World Federation of Democratic Youth has received the news regarding the criminal attack suffered by the Secretary General of the Communist Youth of Ecuador, Edwing Perez, that resulted in his immediate admission in the Kennedy clinic for a surgery of high risk.

On behalf of all the member and friend organizations we condemn this act and demand from the Ecuadorian authorities to take the responsible to the courts. Furthermore we express our most truly wish of immediate recovering of comrade Edwing and we call upon all the progressive youth to express its solidarity towards our dear comrade and his family.

The World Federation of Democratic Youth has received the statement published by the Communist Youth Union of Cuba (UJC) regarding the unfair and criminal blockade that for more than 50 years has been imposed to the brave Cuban people by the consecutive imperialist governments of the USA, with sole goal to defeat by starvation the Cuban Revolution - strategy that has been heroically defeated under the leadership of our dear comrade Commander in Chief Fidel Castro.The Cuban people has resisted the clashes of this hideous blockades, has suffered and suffers limitations, its economy loses millions of dollars every year, it is prevented from accessing pills for the children with cancer, in a violation of the international law by the imperialist and genocidal government of USA. It is shameful that a government with a President that was given a Nobel Prize is capable of keeping its criminal policy against Cuba.

The progressive and anti-imperialist youth of the world is now preparing for the XVII World Festival of Youth and Students, where it will express its full support to the Cuban people and its clear condemnation of the blockade and for the release of the Five Cuban Heroes.

WFDY, on behalf of all its member and friend organizations as well as the progressive youth of the world, demands to the government of USA the immediate stop of the blockade against Cuba, underlining its trust in a new victory to be surely obtained in the United Nations, as a worldwide demonstration of rejection of the blockade. We further call upon all member and friendly organizations as the whole progressive youth of the world to express in all places possible the strong rejection of the unfair and criminal blockade to the heroic Cuban people!