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Western Sahara is a Climate Justice Issue

January 17 | 1 PM
Location: Embark Sustainability | 8888 University Drive West #1310 Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada

Embark Sustainability, the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies, and Spheres of Influence e-zine hosted a presentation on the mutually reinforcing effects of the climate crisis, colonialism, occupation, and forced displacement on the Sahrawi people of northwest Africa.

Speaker:

Parsa Alirezaei is a research assistant at the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies. He鈥檚 a former intern at the International Court of Justice. He鈥檚 also a researcher and assistant coordinator of the Law of the Sea Working group at Law for Palestine. Primarily, he鈥檚 interested in the study of national self-determination movements in modern MENA/SWANA.