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Webinar – Tuesday 15 February 2022 at 6pm: Nonviolent action in a context of renewed war in Western Sahara
"A webinar to highlight a largely forgotten conflict! co-organised by Non-Violence XXI and the Observatoire universitaire international du Sahara Occidental (OUISO) Programme: "Non-violent action in a context of renewed war in Western Sahara" After three decades of...
New German-language edited volume on Western Sahara
New German-language edited volume on Western Sahara Judit Tavakoli, Manfred O. Hinz, Werner Ruf und Leonie Gaiser (Hrsg.): Westsahara. Afrikas letzte Kolonie Released: dec. 2021 ISBN 978-3-947729-36-4 https://www.regiospectra.de/buecher/westsahara-detail Summary A...
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...
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...
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...
CALL for papers – L’Ouest saharien journal – Women’s conditions
Call for papers for the journal L’Ouest saharien Thematic issue (2022) "Women's conditions in the Sahara-Sahel" Issue coordinators: Camille Evrard, historian, associate researcher at the FRAMESPA laboratory (UMR 5136 - Toulouse Jean Jaurès University) and at the...
Letter from OUISO to the Presidency of IRD: Request for clarification on IRD research partnerships in Western Sahara
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Paris, 17th of December 2020, Dear Colleague, Dear CEO of IRD, In June 2020, our observatory published on its website a news item about the signing of research conventions between the IRD and some Moroccan communities or institutions...
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New publication “Around Western Sahara: ongoing research, testimonies and novels”. L’Ouest saharien, issue 12
"Autour du Sahara Occidental : recherches en cours, témoignages et nouvelles" in Cahiers L'Ouest saharien, n°12, 2020, 278 p. This issue of L'Ouest saharien is published in the context of the resumption of the war in Western Sahara, which raises great uncertainties...
The Institute of Research for Development (IRD) violates International Law in Western Sahara
Academic Council Communiqué “The Institute of Research for Development (IRD) violates International Law in North Africa (Western Sahara)” One year ago (June 2020), our Observatory discovered that academic partnerships were underway between Moroccan institutions and...
New paper: A vision of MINURSO. Background, evolution and perspectives – Carlos Ruiz Miguel, Yolanda Blanco Souto
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Carlos Ruiz Miguel and Yolanda Blanco Souto, "Una visión de la MINURSO. Antecedentes, evolución y perspectivas", anuario mexicano de derecho internacional, 20, 2020, pp 351-394 Summary The United Nations Mission for Western Sahara...
Thesis Online: Souveraineté sur les ressources naturelles des territoires occupés et des territoires non autonomes – Hamza Hadj Cherif
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Reference: Hamza HADJ CHERIF, Le droit de souveraineté permanente sur les ressources naturelles dans les territoires occupés et les territoires non autonomes, Thèse de doctorat spécialité droit public, sous la direction d’Anne-Marie...
Nouvelle vidéo: Comprendre la bataille juridique sur l’exploitation des ressources naturelles au Sahara occidental – Meriem Naïli
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Event: an Anthology of the Sahrawi national poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Reference: Gimeno Martin, J.C. y al (2020) Poetas y poesía del Sáhara Occidental. Antropología de la poesía nacional saharaui. Spain: Ultima linea. Summary: "This book is an extraordinary work that makes known the Saharawi poets....
The French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development: a signatory to partnerships with the occupying power of a conflict zone?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The website of the French social and human sciences research laboratory, « UMR PALOC » - a laboratory that is affiliated to the French National Research Institute for Development (IRD), France’s National Museum of Natural History and...
New publication: Las Operaciones de Paz de las Naciones Unidas y los derechos humanos: el caso de la MINURSO en el Sáhara Occidental – Juan Domingo Torrejón Rodríguez
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Reference: Juan Domingo Torrejón Rodríguez. (2020). Las Operaciones de Paz de las Naciones Unidas y los derechos humanos: el caso de la MINURSO en el Sáhara Occidental, Revista de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos, (28), 43-73....
New publication: The activities of French companies in Western Sahara, crime of colonization? – Antoine Quéré
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Reference: Antoine Quéré, Le crime de colonisation par peuplement - Etude de cas sur les activités économiques des entreprises françaises au Sahara Occidental, Master’s thesis in penal law, Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg,...
New publication: Thesis on the rock art of the Upper Saguia el Hamra – Helena Ventura
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Reference: Helena VENTURA, Els gravats rupestres prehistòrics d’estil Tazina del jaciment de Sluguilla Lawash (Sàhara Occidental), PhD thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2019, 614p. Abstract Sluguilla Lawash is the site with a higher...