18 January 2022 - Florentina Pircher & Marieke Hopman,  Wesside Stories
After learning from children what according to them is the most important children’s rights issue in the camps, we now recruited and trained local researchers to help us to collect data from adults. This was our first time working with local researchers, which came with mostly learning opportunities and a few challenges.

11 January 2022 - Florentina Pircher & Marieke Hopman,  Wesside Stories
What is it like, living in Sahrawi refugee camp? Spending some time in the Sahrawi refugee camps gave us an interesting look in the Sahrawi way of living. 

21 December 2021 - Florentina Pircher & Marieke Hopman,  Wesside Stories
In our research, we tried to find out what the main children’s rights issue is for children living in the Sahrawi refugee camps. After 10 interviews, some first findings and lessons can be shared.

2 December 2021 - By Emilia Klebanowski
When studying the right to freedom of expression in Western Sahara we found a lot of information which we would like to share with the United Nations Human Rights Council within their Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process.

23 November 2021 - Florentina Pircher & Marieke Hopman,  Wesside Stories
We know that the Sahrawi live in refugee camps since 1976, but as researchers, we weren’t quite sure what to expect. What does a refugee camp look like, when people have been living there for such a long time? And will we be able to do our research?

12 November 2021 - Florentina Pircher & Marieke Hopman,  Wesside Stories
Doing research on children’s rights in the Moroccan-controlled area of Western Sahara is generally not allowed by the Moroccan authorities. What was it like to do “undercover research”?