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• Africa Web Links: an Annotated Resource List: Western Sahara Web Page (Dr. Ali Dinar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
  
  
• Amnesty International on the Western Sahara and Morocco (2007)
  
  
• ARSO: Association de Soutien à Un Référendum Libre et Régulier au Sahara Occidental (via Switzerland)
  • ARSO Home Page
    This site has many useful links to current news and related sites. See also:
    Online News and Western Sahara Online below.
    
    
  • Western Sahara: Thematic Bibliography = Bibliographie thematique
    Updated in 2006. In English or French. "This is a list of important or original or recent books, publications, scientific articles, reports, photo albums, films, videos, broadcasts, etc. listed by topic."
  
  
• Associació d'amistat amb el poble saharià--Dajla-Burjassot (J. Martínez Alfaro, Universitat de València, Spain)
  Información sobre la organización y sus funciones, archivo de artículos sobre la situación social del pueblo saharaui y una lista de puntos de contacto y asociaciones.
  
  
• Human Rights Watch on Western Sahara (New York)
  • Human rights in Western Sahara and in the Tindouf Refugee Camps: Morocco/Western Sahara/Algeria (December 2008). 216 pages in PDF format
    
  • Western Sahara: keeping it secret, the United Nations operations in the Western Sahara (October 1995). Human Rights Watch. (Online) ; vol. 7, no. 7.
  
  
• Le Monde Diplomatique Archives: Sahara Occidental, 2006- (Paris)
  Aussi, on peut rechercher << Sahara occidental >> dans les archives.
  
  
• Moroccan Sahara (Morocco?)
  This pro-Moroccan government site --aimed at American or English language audiences-- contains recent official news on Western Sahara, full-length reports on official government policies, and proposals for the "Moroccan Autonomy Plan for the Sahara."
  
  
• Museo Nacional del Pueblo Saharaui (1997) (Universitat de Girona, Biblioteca, Spain)
  Breves reseñas, con imágenes y mapas, sobre la prehistoria, la historia, la cultura tradicional y el arte Saharaui.
  
  
• National Union of Sahrawi Women Home Page (via ARSO--Association de soutien à un référendum libre et régulier au Sahara Occidental)
  "The National Union of Sahrawi Women (NUSW) is a people's organisation of all the women of the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic SADR, created in 1979 on the initiative of the POLISARIO Front. Today the NUSW has 10,000 members in the refugee camps in Tindouf, the occupied and liberated areas of the Western Sahara and living abroad as Saharawi emigrants, organised in local and regional offices."
  
  
• Online News on Western Sahara
  • AllAfrica.Com: Current and Recent News Summaries on Western Sahara (AllAfrica Global Media, Washington, DC)
    News summaries based on reports from UN agencies, ARSO, other NGOs, and other sources. Warning: the searchable archive for articles older than 30 days is only available through subscription.
  • Sahara-Info.Org. (Online): Bulletin de l'Association des Amis de la République Arabe Sahraouie Démocratique. -- Paris: AARASD, 1976- En format PDF.
  • Sahara Press Service -- Agence de presse de la République Arabe Sahraouie Démocratique. (Tindouf, SADR)
    Current news in English, French, Arabic, and Spanish from a variety of sources...plus documents and related links. The archives are accessible only via subscription.
  • See also: UN News Center = Centre de Nouvelles ONU below
  
  
• Sahara, en busca de la independencia -- 30 años del Frente Polisario (via Elmundo, Madrid, Spain)
  
  
• United Nations on Western Sahara
  • UN News Center = Centre de Nouvelles ONU (New York)
    --"Ouverture de troisième cycle de pourparlers sur le Sahara occidental" (le 8 janvier 2008)
    --Rapports et communiqués du 9 octobre 2007 au 3 janvier 2008
    
    
  • MINURSO: UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara - Current Reports (New York)
  • UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, September 1991-July 1995 (via George Mason University)
    
    
  • UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: IRIN--Integrated Regional Information Networks on Western Sahara (Geneva, Switzerland)
    Current and recent news summaries from UN agencies, plus links to news archives for 1999 to the present.
    
    
  • UN Secretary-General Reports on Western Sahara, 1994- (via ARSO)
  
  
• United States Agencies on Western Sahara (Washington, DC)
  • United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics: US-Western Sahara, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003-2005
    
    
  • United States. Central Intelligence Agency. World Factbook: Western Sahara
    (2009)
    
    
  • United States. Department of State: Western Sahara/Morocco Country Report on Human Rights Practices: 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
  
  
• Western Sahara Online.Net
  A pro-Moroccan government site, with news, reports, and links--aimed at American or English language audiences.
  
  
• The Western Sahara Project: Environmental and Social Change in Arid Northwest Africa (Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, UK)
  The website includes summaries on the general history of the region, preliminary reconnaisance reports, and related project information. "The project is a collaborative one involving British and Italian researchers, and was initiated at the invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)."
  --See especially: Publications (in PDF format)
  
  
• Western Sahara Update -- Archive (2001) (Donald MacDonald, Leeds, UK)
  An archive of news reports and links to web sites on the Western Sahara...generally in support of the referendum and critical of Morocco.