Documentaries
3 Stolen Cameras
The members of video activist group, Equipe Media, fight to keep their cameras. They use them to document the Moroccan kingdoms’ violations of human…
Rifles or graffiti. The nonviolent struggle of the Sahrawi People
Since the ceasefire agreement in 1991 the Sahrawis have engaged in a decades long non-violent struggle against the occupation. With no political…
Life is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara
What will it take for the people of Western Sahara to reverse decades of broken promises and gain their freedom? What lessons does Sahrawi resistance…
The Sahara’s Forgotten War
VICE News travels to Western Sahara's occupied and liberated territories, as well as the Polisario-run refugee camps in Algeria, to find out more…
Gdeim Izik – The Sahrawi Resistance Camp
A documentary banned by the Moroccan monarchy. Shows the spark that ignited the so-called Arab Spring. They have taken an extraordinary documentary…
We are Rebels
In one of the most hostile regions to human life across the planet, the Saharawi people live deprived for fundamental right to have a own land:…
Four Days in Western Sahara
In this exclusive broadcast, Democracy Now! breaks the media blockade and goes to occupied Western Sahara in the northwest of Africa to document the…
Books
The Western Sahara Question and International Law: Recognition Doctrine and Self-Determination
If one accepts the ICJ’s conclusion that the right to self-determination isvested in the Sahrawi people as a matter of international law, it follows…
El oasis de la memoria: memoria histórica y violaciones de Derechos Humanos en el Sáhara Occidental (II)
El oasis de la memoria is both a human rights report and a narrative of resistance, combining legal analysis, historical reconstruction, and personal…
El oasis de la memoria: memoria histórica y violaciones de Derechos Humanos en el Sáhara Occidental (I)
El oasis de la memoria is both a human rights report and a narrative of resistance, combining legal analysis, historical reconstruction, and personal…
The Western Sahara
As territory, topography, and tribal social structures are laid out, Price argues that any resolution, to be lasting, would need to account for local…
Western Sahara conflict: historical, regional and international dimensions
As the last African or Middle Eastern territory to be effectively colonised by a European power and one of the last to be freed from colonial yoke,…
Western Sahara, a bibliography
This series will eventually cover every country (and many of the world's principal regions), each in a separate volume comprising annotated entries…
Western Sahara: Anatomy of a stalemate?
This new edition of Western Sahara takes the story of the ongoing conflict up to the present and also looks ahead.
Spanish Sahara
The Spanish Sahara (including Rio de Oro) is a district of north-west Africa, extending in a northeasterly and south-westerly direction from the Wad…
Articles
The Western Sahara Dispute: A Cautionary Tale for Peacebuilders
The UN and MINURSO have succeeded neither inconducting a referendum nor in fostering a negotiated solution to the problem. Indeed,the Secretariat and…
Western Sahara as a Hybrid of a Parastate and a State-in-Exile: (Extra)territoriality and the Small Print of Sovereignty in a Context of Frozen Conflict
Within the liminal universe of parastates, what makes Western Sahara/SADR anomalous and unique is that it has not originated from secessionism but…
The Front Polisario Verdict and the Gap Between the EU’s Trade Treatment of Western Sahara and Its Treatment of the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Morocco’s control over Western Sahara and Israel’s control of the West Bank bear similar features in terms of public international law, in general,…
Conflict resolution in Western Sahara
The efforts to resolve the Western Sahara conflict have been jeopardised by the difficulties involved in trying to promote a democratic solution for…
The Non-Interventionary Norm Prevails: an Analysis of the Western Sahara
This article addresses why non-intervention occurs and how it can actually contribute to the intractable nature of some conflicts - especially those…
Protracted conflict and failure to achieve prenegotiation in Western Sahara Conflict
The United Nations and Western powers, due to the absence of political will and/or questions of Realpolitik, also bear responsibility for the…
The Sahrawis of Western Sahara
The report details the displacement of much of the Sahrawi population to refugee camps in Algeria, the harsh conditions faced by those remaining, and…
Western Sahara’s Unlearned Lessons
The Western Sahara conflict shows how national interests often override international principles, creating stalemates the UN cannot resolve. Morocco…
Miscellaneous
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