50 years of resistance, occupation and human rights violations in Western Sahara
As the 50th anniversary of the Sahara issue approaches, UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, emphasized in his 2024 report that “this challenging context continues to make it more urgent than ever to reach a political solution to the question of Western Sahara.” A fair, lasting, and mutually acceptable political solution can only be achieved on the basis of international law; otherwise, the solution risks being neither fair nor enduring. Despite the significant evolution of international law over the past decades in relation to the Sahara issue, recent developments have not accounted for these advancements.
The Western Sahara conflict needs to be resolved, and therefore it needs our renewed efforts of support. The European Youth Forum (YFJ) has voiced its concerns about the Western Sahara conflict several times, as it remains one of the last cases of decolonisation yet to be resolved, and the last one in Africa.
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