Sovereignty in Exile
The heat of the day soft ened, and we began to stir from our midday slumbers. Thirsty for air, we emerged from the tent to resume the morning’s abandoned labors. It was nearly the end of my month-long sojourn with a family of camel herders in the pasturelands that my hosts called, in the accent of the Hassaniya dialect of Arabic, the badīah.
Natural resources and intifada: oil, phosphates and resistance to colonialism in Western Sahara
Rich in resources and small in population, Western Sahara, partially occupied since 1975 by neighbouring Morocco, has a history shaped to a large extent by its natural wealth. Indeed, sovereignty over the country’s phosphates became a key claim of the pro-independence, anti-Spanish Saharawi movement in the early 1970s.
Voices from the Saharawi Refugee Camps
Young Saharawi refugees talk about their dream of a free Western Sahara. All they ask is to be allowed to choose their own political future.
Morocco’s Implementation of the ICCPR
On the Occasion of the Human Rights Committee’s 2016 Review of the Kingdom of Morocco’s Implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights