Western Sahara independence faces pushback as Morocco’s autonomy plan gains global support despite legal and environmental ...

Often depicting animals in motion, kinetic portraits, and expressive hands, Taquen’s expansive works exude momentum. The ...

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.

We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of Western Sahara and its Indigenous people, the Sahrawi. The Sahrawi ...

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.

Ongoing support from Paris and a second Trump presidency “will only embolden Morocco” and “leave the Sahrawi people with no option but to intensify their armed struggle for self ...

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 ...

Morocco’s invasion triggered a 15 year war with the Polisario Front – a political-military movement that claims representation of the Sahrawi people. During this time, an estimated 40,000 Sahrawi ...

There is a strong tradition of former soldiers developing anti-war sentiments and even joining the peace movement. In the US, military recruiters have focused their efforts on poorer areas with high ...