• L’Ouest saharien Journal – issue 17 – Saharan Imaginaries
    29 March 2023 Comments Off on L’Ouest saharien Journal – issue 17 – Saharan Imaginaries

    In the latest issue of the journal, two articles deal specifically with Western Sahara: Mark Drury : Naming the City: Saharan Urbanization and Disaggregated Sovereignty https://www.cairn.info/revue-l-ouest-saharien-2022-2-page-39.htm Andrea Bastide : Enjeux géopolitiques multiscalaires de la déclaration de Pedro Sánchez (2022) relative au projet marocain d’autonomie du Sahara Occidental https://www.cairn.info/revue-l-ouest-saharien-2022-2-page-145.htm Please find the full summary here: https://www.cairn.info/revue-l-ouest-saharien-2022-2.htm

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  • Latest issue of the Spanish Yearbook of International Law
    29 March 2023 Comments Off on Latest issue of the Spanish Yearbook of International Law

    Some papers of this last issue are dedicated to Western Sahara : Morocco, occupying power of Western Sahara: some notes about Spain’s foreign legal policy, the role of the Spanish doctrine and the rule of law in international relations Jaume Ferrer Lloret Is autonomy the solution to the Western Sahara conflict? Juan Soroeta Liceras Diplomatic…

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  • New Book : Exhortación, by the sahrawi poet Badi Mohamed Salem
    9 November 2022 Comments Off on New Book : Exhortación, by the sahrawi poet Badi Mohamed Salem

    Badi Mohamed Salem, Exhortación, Última Línea, 2022, 110 p., ISBN : 978-84-18492-26-6 This book is a collection of poems that Badi composed in the last stage of his life. In them he confronts with determination human frailty and death, universal experiences. Living in exile in a refugee camp in southern Algeria does not distract the…

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  • New PhD thesis: the role of Minurso in Western Sahara – Meriem Naïli
    9 November 2022 Comments Off on New PhD thesis: the role of Minurso in Western Sahara – Meriem Naïli

    NAILI Meriem, Peacekeeping and International Human Rights Law: Interrogating United Nations Mechanisms through a Study of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, PhD Dissertation, defended on 5 May 2022, Supervisors : Dr Irene Fernandez-Molina & Dr Aurel Sari, University of Exeter Abstract: The UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) was…

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  • International Workshop – Young scholars – Online – November 30
    9 November 2022 Comments Off on International Workshop – Young scholars – Online – November 30

    Western Sahara: A Multidisciplinary, Transregional Journée d’Etude The Western Sahara International Academic Observatory (OUISO) invites you to participate in an online workshop on Western Sahara and its regional context. The workshop is conceived as an interdisciplinary space covering contemporary issues of Western Sahara and the surrounding region from different perspectives in the social sciences, law…

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  • Four complaints for torture on Sahrawi political prisoners
    13 July 2022 Comments Off on Four complaints for torture on Sahrawi political prisoners

    Four complaints for torture filed against Morocco before the UN Committee against Torture On Thursday June 9, four complaints denouncing violations of the provisions of the United Nations Convention against Torture were filed against the State of Morocco before the UN Committee against Torture (CAT) in Geneva. Press release: 220610 CP ENG 4 Plaintes CAT

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  • Brief history of the Western Sahara – Isaías Barreñada
    11 July 2022 Comments Off on Brief history of the Western Sahara – Isaías Barreñada

    Notice of publication Isaías Barreñada, 2022, Breve historia del Sahara Occidental, Catarata, 144 p. Almost 50 years after Spain’s abandonment, the Sahrawi conflict continues to mark Spanish foreign policy in the region. Western Sahara is an illustrative example of a conflict that the international community has allowed to escalate. As the United Nations has pointed…

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  • Women in the Sahara and the Sahel – L’Ouest saharien journal, issue 16
    11 July 2022 Comments Off on Women in the Sahara and the Sahel – L’Ouest saharien journal, issue 16

    Notice of publication C. Evrard & E. Pettigrew, 2022, Femmes du Sahara-Sahel: Transformation sociales et conditions de vie, Cahiers L’Ouest saharien, n°16, 232 p. There are few works on women in the humanities and social sciences literature on the Saharo-Sahelian region. This dossier reveals precisely these shortcomings while inviting readers to immerse themselves in some…

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  • United States in the Western Sahara War
    11 July 2022 Comments Off on United States in the Western Sahara War

    The policy of the North American administrations in the Sahara conflict via the recently declassified documents of the Secretary of State Domingo Garí, Estados Unidos en la guerra del Sáhara Occidental, Catarata, 2021, 224 p. The war in Western Sahara was in its first years in favor of the Saharawi side. The Polisario Front came…

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  • MPs Faucillon and Lecoq question the French government (IRD-Morocco agreements)
    5 May 2022 Comments Off on MPs Faucillon and Lecoq question the French government (IRD-Morocco agreements)

    MPs Elsa Faucillon and Jean-Paul Lecoq questioned the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, and the French Minister for Higher Education and Research, Frédérique Vidal, about two research agreements signed illegally by the IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement) with the Kingdom of Morocco. The first research agreement, signed by…

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