February 28

• Western Sahara: Hoping for a UN Spring [opinion]

  Blatant violence against peacefully protesting Saharawis, official propaganda that misrepresents the situation in the occupied territory and blockage of independent external... Read more »

• Western Sahara: A Violence That Goes Unnamed

  The conflict in the Western Sahara is inadequately represented by terms such as 'stagnated', 'frozen' and 'locked', which contribute to obscure the reality that this conflict... Read more »

• Western Sahara: My Struggle to Get a Good Education [opinion]

  Education is every child's right. But for Saharawi children, getting an education may require making tremendous sacrifices, including prolonged separation from family and loss of... Read more »

• Western Sahara: The Life of a Saharawi Student [opinion]

  The Moroccan regime goes into appalling lengths to dehumanize Saharawi school children, even promoting drug use among them to break their resistance. But many of the children are... Read more »

• Western Sahara: Do You Have Any Idea What Is 'Homeland' for a Refugee? [opinion]

  Many people may take for granted being the citizen of a free, sovereign nation. But for someone who was born in a refugee camp and has only heard about her occupied homeland, the... Read more »

• Western Sahara: Three Stories [opinion]

  In this personal account refugee Senia Bachir Abderahman reflects on her own educational sojourn in Algeria and Norway, the cultural beauty of the El-melhfa fabric as well as those... Read more »

• Western Sahara: Waiting for 'Istiftah' [opinion]

  Reflecting on her life as a refugee in the Tindouf camps Fatimetu contemplates how the Saharawi people are wholly dependent on humanitarian aid whilst Morocco exploits the wealth... Read more »

• Western Sahara: The Valiant Fisherman

  In this interview with Mohammed El Baykam, a fisherman and the spokesman of the fisheries association in Dakhla, Western Sahara, his uncompromising determination to expose the... Read more »

• Morocco: A Lawyer's Testimony to the UN [document]

  Comments of Katlyn Thomas before the Special Political and Decolonization Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, October 2012 Read more »

• Western Sahara: Democratic Experiments in Disputed Nation [opinion]

  When refugees turn out to vote, and when they raise their voices, in participatory meetings or in their homes, to criticise their government, they show how much they value the... Read more »

• Western Sahara: Human Rights Monitoring in Western Sahara [opinion]

  There are horrendous human rights violations in Western Sahara perpetrated by agents of the Moroccan authorities. But the UN mission has neither mandate nor capacity to monitor and... Read more »

• Morocco: The EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement [analysis]

  POLISARIO brings an action against EU's plunder before the European Court of Justice Read more »

• Morocco: Letter to UN Security Council [document]

  In this letter to the President of the UN Security Council, Seoul Peace Prize Laureate Suzanne Scholte urges the Council to prevail upon the King of Morocco to overturn the... Read more »

• Morocco: Another Moroccan 'Coup De Théâtre' [analysis]

  The latest trial has yet again stunned the world with regard to Morocco's persistent audacity to blatantly defy international law, digging itself deeper into a geo-politically... Read more »

• Morocco: The Question of Western Sahara - From Impasse to Independence [analysis]

  There is little hope for a genuine referendum on self-determination for the Sahrawi people. Their international supporters and the UN General Assembly should now work towards... Read more »

• Africa: OAU/AU and the Question of Western Sahara [analysis]

  The continental body, which admitted Western Sahara to its membership in 1982, has consistently defended the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence.... Read more »

• Morocco: Book Review of 'Western Sahara - the Refugee Nation' [analysis]

  The book gives a credible history and analysis of the ways in which the Sahrawis, from Spanish colonial times to the present, have come to see themselves and have coped with the... Read more »

• Morocco: Using Culture as Cover After Plundering Resources [analysis]

  Morocco, which militarily controls Western Sahara since its occupation in 1975, is trying to present a false image of the situation in Western Sahara, taking advantage of the... Read more »

November 01, 2012

• Western Sahara: 'People Are Starving in 37-Year-Old Refugee Camps' [analysis]

  Living conditions in the camps have worsened over the years and Saharawis believe this is part of the strategy by Morocco to push the people in the illegally occupied territory... Read more »

September 20, 2012

• Morocco: Young Saharawis Are Fed Up With the Futile Peace Process

  A recent survey carried out by Polisario's youth wing found that over 85 per cent of the young Saharawis polled were in favour of ending the current ceasefire with Morocco and... Read more »

July 05, 2012

• Western Sahara: Execution of Dambar - Saharawi People Demand Justice [document]

  The three human rights organisations are deeply concerned about Moroccan refusal to investigate the assassination of a young Saharawi man, Saïd Dambar, who was shot dead in... Read more »

June 14, 2012

• Morocco: Western Sahara - Realpolitik to the Rescue of Colonization? [opinion]

  Is it possible to cure cancer with aspirin? Can we do justice in a murder by relentlessly "assaulting" the victim's body looking for excuses to the murderer? Read more »

April 26, 2012

• Morocco: Can War Bring Freedom for the Saharawi People? [analysis]

  After bitter debate within the Security Council, and strong pressures from France to avoid any kind of progress in the resolution of the conflict in Western Sahara, the member... Read more »

April 19, 2012

• Morocco: UN Must Include Human Rights Component to Minurso [analysis]

  Torture and other inhuman and degrading treatments, arbitrary arrest and detention, forced disappearance, the use of rape as a mean of intimidation, are current practices committed... Read more »

February 23, 2012

• Morocco: Western Sahara - Refugee Starvation 'Could Trigger New War' [analysis]

  Saharawis are becoming increasingly impatient with the UN and many are willing to break the ceasefire between Western Sahara's liberation front, Polisario, and Morocco, which has... Read more »