EXTERNAL LINKS:

Organization for Statehood & Freedom (OSF)
The Organization for Statehood and Freedom seeks to support stateless people, and particularly  the Saharawis, by building political support for and action to support universal  principles of independence and self-rule among the international community.

The Western Sahara Association in California
The Western Sahara Association in California is aimed at raising awareness of the illegal occupation of the Western Sahara and its refugees.
http://www.calwesternsahara.org/

Sahara Update
News service provided by the Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara
http://www.sahara-update.org/

APOPO & Hero Rats
Apopo is an organization that trains ’sniffer rats’ to detect landmines. Hero Rats is a website that tells the stories of the rats that are being used in heavily mined areas. www.apopo.org
www.herorat.org

2008 reading on steps of School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS)
The International Court of Justice’s delivered its findings in 1975 upholding the right of self-determination of the people of Western Sahara over the territorial claims of neighbouring states, Morocco and Mauritania. Catriona Drew from SOAS organised a reading of the findings on the steps of SOAS for 2 hours each lunch time from the anniversary of its publication on 16 October until 6 November, the day of the Green March, see: http://www.soas.ac.uk/events/event43364

Facts about Western Sahara
Detailed map, government, religion, languages, education, health care, topography, climate, natural resources, economy.
Sahara Facts

ARSO - Association supporting a Free and Fair Referendum in Western Sahara
Latest news on events in and concerning Western Sahara
http://www.arso.org/index.htm

Illegal EU-Moroccan Fisheries Agreement
The legal case, including comment by Hans Corell, Under-Secretary for Legal Affairs to the President of the Security Council
http://www.fishelsewhere.org/legal.htm

Oil and gas exploration
Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic Oil and Gas Exploration 2005/2006 Licensing Round
http://www.sadroilandgas.com/index.html

Western Sahara
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Sahara

MINURSO: UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara - Current Reports
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/minurso/index.html

Sandblast - Voices and visions from Western Sahara
http://www.sandblast-arts.org/

One Hump or Two?
Blogger, Will, from Washington D.C. provides commentary on a range of issues including the independence struggle of the Saharawis
http://onehumportwo.blogspot.com/

Western Sahara Campaign UK
The role of Western Sahara Campaign UK is to lobby the UK Government and the EU to ensure the UK does not ignore the voice of the Saharawi people
http://www.wsahara.org.uk/

Climatology research leads to archeological sites in WS
Nick Brooks from University of East Anglia reports on the research he is conducting on climatology as seen in the archeological sites of liberated Western Sahara.
http://nickbrooks.wordpress.com/tag/western-sahara/

Free Western Sahara Network
This network aims to bring together many different groups working for WS around the world.
The official launch of this new network took place on 12th June 2009 in U.K.
http://freesahara.ning.com/

KEY DOCUMENTS:

The Green March, 6 November 1975
http://www.wsahara.net/greenmarch.html

Madrid Accords, 1975
http://www.wsahara.net/maccords.html

Framework agreement on the Status of Western Sahara, 2001(Baker Plan I)
http://www.wsahara.net/framagrm.html

Peace plan for self-determination of the people of Western Sahara, 2003 (Baker Plan II)
http://www.wsahara.net/03/bakerplan.html

GENERAL REFERENCES:

Endgame in the Western Sahara: What Future for Africa’s Last Colony?, Toby Shelley (2004) Zed Books (ISBN 1-84277-341-0)

Western Sahara: The Roots of a Desert War, Tony Hodges (1983), Lawrence Hill Books (ISBN 0-88208-152-7)

Historical Dictionary of Western Sahara, Anthony G. Pazzanita and Tony Hodges (1994), Scarecrow Press (ISBN 0-8108-2661-5)

Western Sahara: Anatomy of a Stalemate, Erik Jensen (2005), International Peace Studies (ISBN 1-58826-305-3)