This essay highlights the issues surrounding the conflict, but more importantly, it highlights the fact that international profit from phosphate mining is still more important to the rest of the world than trying to force Morocco to respect human rights. Western Sahrawis, and especially Sahrawi women activists, are an example of unending courage in the face of years of repression and violence from a much more powerful country that is supported and internationally recognized as a rightful partner of the West. The activists do not stop fighting for human rights, and especially for the right to self-determination, even though their struggle seems endless.
