• New video: Pr Isaías Barreñada Bajo’s enlightment on Spain’s position in the Western Sahara conflict
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    New video available in our video section! New video put online and organized by SOLIDARITY RISING now available! The live intervention of Isaías Barreñada Bajo for Solidarity Rising on the place of Spain in the conflict in Western Sahara is available in replay in our section our experts take the floor ! Isaias Barreñada Bajo...

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  • New video: Dr. Yahia Zoubir’s video insight on the Israelisation of the Western Sahara conflict
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    New video available in our video section!  New video put online and organized by SOLIDARITY RISING now available! The live intervention of Yahia Zoubir for Solidarity Rising on the israelization of the conflict in Western Sahara is available in replay in our section Our experts take the floor ! Dr Yahia Zoubir is Professor of...

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  • Free access to the videos of the Amiens 2019 conference!
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    Western Sahara - News on an old issue International Multidisciplinary Colloquium Scientific Director: Marjorie Beulay Picardie Jules Verne University May 27 and 28, 2019 at the Logis du Roy - Amiens Monday, May 27, 2019 Opening Remarks Lucie Delabie (Associate Professor of Public Law and Director of the UFR of Law and Political Science - Université...

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  • Pavel Borecky’s movie (2018) now in open access !
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    Borecký, Pavel (director). In the Devil's garden, 2018, 25 minutes. Produced by the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern MOVIE AVAILABLE HERE Password: supportsahrawis Synopsis: Film shot in the Sahrawi refugee camps near Tindouf, in southwest Algeria. The film situates the viewer within a makeshift space of an animal market in Algeria....

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  • In the media: News on the situation of Sahrawi political prisoners
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    Reference: Perez, Benito, "Inquiétudes pour les détenus sahraouis", le courrier, 27 September 2019. Human rights: Moroccan reprisals against Claude Mangin and her husband, the Sahrawi activist Nâama Asfari, have worried UN experts. Under the leadership of its Commissioner Ana Racu, the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) announced this summer its next visit to Moroccan...

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  • New video : Insights from Carlos Ruiz Miguel on the EU-Morocco agreements
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    A new module is available on the Observatory's website! 5 minutes for 1 question The first video deals with the agreements between the European Union and Morocco on the natural resources of Western Sahara: available here (french or Spanish). To shed light on this issue, we called on Carlos Ruiz Miguel. Professor of Constitutional Law...

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  • Sahara : Conflit ensablé ? – Le dessous des cartes
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    Pierre-Olivier François, Sahara : conflit ensablé ?, Le dessous des cartes, September 8, 2018 According to the UN, this is one of the last unresolved colonial conflicts. For fifty years, the desert areas of Western Sahara, rich in raw materials and open to the sea, are the object of an endless rivalry between Morocco - which...

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  • EU-Morocco fisheries agreements qualified as invalid by EU Court of Justice
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    Cour de justice de l’Union européenne COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE n° 1/18 Luxembourg, le 10 janvier 2018 Conclusions de l’avocat général dans l’affaire C-266/16 The Queen et Western Sahara Campaign/Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs et Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs According to Advocate General Wathelet, the fisheries agreement between the…

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  • « Le Maroc est en train de modifier sa stratégie sur le Sahara occidental »
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    Khadija Mohsen-Finan analyzes Rabat strategy changes after its reintegration into the African Union and the arrival of a new UN Secretary-General. Interview made by Charlotte Bozonnet LE MONDE 08.03.2017, 15h20 http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2017/03/08/le-maroc-est-en-train-de-modifier-sa-strategie-sur-le-sahara-occidental_5091331_3212.html

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  • Interview of Spanish radio with Mr Gilles Devers, about the ECJ ruling
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    RTVE.es: Broadcast in French - Western Sahara: Interview Gilles Devers - 05/01/17 "Any activity of a European or partly European company in Western Sahara is poaching," says Gilles Devers. The judgment of the EU Court of Justice is clear and goes beyond the agricultural agreement. Moreover, the importation of products from the Saharawi territory, formerly...

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