The West Papuan genocide: United Nations malfeasance and the failure of international law
Julian King argues the UN undermined West Papuan self-determination in the 1960s and that international law offers no route to accountability for what followed.
The missing voices of Western Sahara
Zahra Rahmouni shows how Sahrawis are shut out of debates on their own future after UN Resolution 2797, and why there can be no lasting solution without them.
MINURSO through Sahrawi eyes: a critical assessment of the UN mission in Western Sahara
Malainin Lakhal draws on thirty interviews with Sahrawis to show how the UN mission MINURSO came to be seen as passive or complicit, leaving a shared political trauma.
Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources
An editorial on how fisheries and phosphates have driven Spanish and then Moroccan colonial rule in Western Sahara, and what the 2024 EU court ruling changes.
AI for War: Big Tech Empowering Israel’s Crimes and Occupation
Marwa Fatafta shows how Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir supply the AI and cloud infrastructure behind Israel's war on Gaza, and how to hold them to account.