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Our Top Ten sites on Western Sahara

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Saharawi Voice is a blog out of the Saharawi refugee camps raising awareness about Western Sahara issues. Its growing platform showcases the stories and lives of a wider range of Saharawis from the camps and elsewhere.
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The Sahara Marathon is an international solidarity sports event taking place every February in the Saharawi refugee camps.  The first edition took place in 2001.

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The WSRW is an international network of organisations and activists researching and campaigning the companies working for Moroccan interests to illegally exploit natural resources in occupied Western Sahara.
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The Western Sahara Action Forum (WSAF) provides information and resources to support the campaign for the United Nations to live up to its legal and moral obligations to put in place a human rights monitoring body in Western Sahara as part of its mission in the territory.

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​ARTifariti is an encounter of international artists interested in raising awareness about human rights issues through the arts. They meet every October in the Saharawi refugee camps.
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FiSahara - “Cinema for the Sahrawi People” uses film to entertain, convey knowledge and empower the Saharawi refugees. The project consists of an annual human rights film festival and a year-round film school in the Saharawi refugee camps.

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The Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara (NSCWS) is a membership organisation, formed in 1993. It  distributes information on the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara and highlights actions and campaigns going on in Norway and elsewhere throughout Europe.
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 Not Forgotten International is a humanitarian aid organization based in Wisconsin. It raises awareness about the Saharawi refugee plight and has ongoing projects in the camps, including an established  English language learning programme in Smara and Ausserd, which relies on committed volunteers to teach for a period of 3 to 9 months.

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The Wall of Sand project aims to spread the word about the longest active military defense wall in the world, built by the Moroccan occupiers  in Western Sahara. The mission is to raise awareness of the forgotten conflict in Africa's Last Colony  and bring down the wall.
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The Equipe Media is made up of activist  Saharawi journalists reporting on human rights violations and other issues from the Moroccan occupied territoy of Western Sahara where access for independent outside joutnalists is highly restricted

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