Still Waiting for Tomorrow: The Law and Politics of Unresolved Refugee Crises
Long before the 1948 Arab-Israeli war when 750,000 people fled or were forced out of Mandate Palestine, the stage was set for Palestinians to become—and to remain—refugees. From the late 19thcentury the Zionist movement had conceived a plan for a Jewish return to the Holy Land.
Western Sahara
Having been largely forgotten, the Western Sahara conflict appeared to be heating up again in early 2012 when the German multinational, Siemens, landed an order for the construction and maintenance of 22 windmills to be built on a wind farm in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.
The MINURSO Mandate, Human Rights and the Autonomy Solution for Western Sahara
Over recent years, international pressure has been increasing for the inclusion of a human rights monitoring mechanism within the MINURSO mandate, thus putting an endto an anomaly among current UN peacekeeping missions.
Privilege, Marginalization, and Solidarity: Women’s Voices Online in Western Sahara’s Struggle for Independence
Much recent research has illustrated the power of online communities and social media outlets for presenting diverse women’s voices, whose perspectives are too often invisible in mainstream news media.
Nonviolent Resistance in the Western Sahara
In November of 2010, Moroccan news media reported on the violent riots taking place in Laayoune, the capital city of Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara. The television coverage focused on violence enacted by the protesters.