A/HRC/4/30 page 18 Amnesty International also expressed serious concern about deportations from Spain to Morocco after Médecins Sans Frontières reported that it had discovered more than 500 people abandoned in the desert on the Morocco-Algeria border by the Moroccan police, without any food or water.44 50. The Special Rapporteur recognizes that Spain, but also other European countries, have made impressive efforts to intensify their development aid to the countries most affected by hunger. Spain developed a special aid programme in favour of 18 countries of sub-Saharan Africa. 51. This tragedy of African refugees from hunger was a key focus of the World Social Forum on Migration held in Madrid on 21-24 June 2006, and is also a focus of Africa’s own extremely diverse and dynamic civil society, including during the African Social Forum held in Bamako (22-25 January 2005) and the World Social Forum held in Nairobi (19-23 January 2007). Special days of commemoration for the bloody events at Ceuta and Melilla were focused on the theme of “Globalization and African migration” (29 September-7 October 2006 at Bamako). In the words of Aminata Traoré, former Minister of Culture of Mali and one of the most prominent writers of French-speaking Africa: The human, financial and technological resources that Europe’s 25 countries have deployed against the inflow of African migrants, in fact, signify a real war between this world power and these young, defenceless, rural and urban Africans, whose right to education, right to economic information, right to work and right to food have been denied in their own countries under structural adjustment. Victims of macroeconomic decisions and choices, through no fault of their own, they are chased, tracked down and humiliated if they try to flee. The dead, the injured and the handicapped of the bloody events of Ceuta and Melilla in 2005, as well as the hundreds of lifeless bodies that wash up on the beaches of Mauritania, the Canary Islands, Lampedus or elsewhere are also drowned by this forced and criminalized migration. 52. At the very moment when the Special Rapporteur finalized his report, on 18 December 2006, the international press reported that over 100 refugees had drowned the day before off the coast of Senegal on their way to Spain.45 53. The Special Rapporteur believes that the increasing criminalization of migration will simply lead to further violations of the right to life and the right to food. Legal protection must be extended to refugees from hunger. National Governments always bear primary responsibility for respecting the right to food, but if people flee their countries for their lives, they should not be sent back to situations of hunger that threaten their lives. He believes that, only by recognizing their obligations to the world’s hunger refugees, will all Governments finally take seriously their responsibility for eradicating global hunger. 44 Ibid. 45 Le Courrier, Genève, 10 December 2006.