Department of Peace and Conflict Studies Seminar | Africa’s Last Colony: Human Rights and the Decolonisation Process in Western Sahara

This talk will explore the unfinished decolonisation process in Western Sahara while considering the legal, political and historical aspects of Western Sahara as a non-self-governing territory. It will also highlight the exploitation of natural resources and the situation of human rights in the Territory. In 1975 the International Court of Justice found that Western Sahara …