This festival, born from a shared dream between the Sahrawi people, Spanish filmmakers and solidarity organizations, would not exist without you. AMY GOODMAN: That was María Carrión.

There are governments that recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) as the legitimate government of the Sahrawi people, and others that call for the original United Nations insistence ...

The court held that “all states have legal obligations to assist the Sahrawi people in the full realisation of their right to self-determination and independence.” ...

In 1983, this vision was formalised through Resolution AHG/Res. 104 (XIX), which called for a ceasefire in Western Sahara and a referendum allowing the Sahrawi people to freely determine their future.

An overview of this territory, which is in dispute between the Sahrawi people and Morocco. ... The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), declared by the Polisario Front in 1976, ...

Though the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, MINURSO, was established in 1991, the Sahrawi people are still waiting for its delivery; an opportunity to vote for their self ...

The camps are home to the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara and are administered by their freedom movement Polisario, which is fighting to liberate their homeland from Morocco.

In a recent landmark ruling, the African Court denounced the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara as a serious violation of the right to self-determination. In a landmark ruling of 22 September ...

This year marks 50 years since Morocco invaded Western Sahara, forcibly displacing the Sahrawi people into Algeria. Women's rights and climate activist Najla Mohamed-Lamin joins us from the refugee ...

Around 70 people gathered in front of the screen as a film was beamed onto it from a 16-wheeler truck. Some sat on carpets, rolled out over rocky, reddish sand; others crouched on low dunes.

A Sahrawi-Australian woman has called for more recognition of her people's struggle for independence in the Western Sahara. The disputed territory is known as the last African colonial state yet ...