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The Lithuanian firm Lifosa refused to answer the question whether they intend to terminate phosphate imports from Western Sahara, and was today kicked out of the UN Global Compact initiative on Corporate Social Responsibility.

Published 03 June 2011
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For 50 days, six Saharawi citizens in Guelmim have been on hunger strike to denounce Morocco’s illegal exploitation of Saharawi natural resources. Their health condition is alarming.
Published 02 June 2011
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There is no unequivocal proof that Western Sahara, let alone its people, has benefitted from the EU-Morocco fisheries partnership agreement (FPA), according to the Irish government.

Published 02 June 2011
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Last week, shipments of phosphates arrived in the ports of Hobart and Geelong in Australia. The vessel above, Livadia, was seen arriving Tasmania 27 May 2011.

Published 29 May 2011
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Member of Western Sahara Resource Watch, Elena Pollán, was this week-end forced to leave Western Sahara after harassment from Moroccan police. Pollán was carrying out interviews with Saharawi about the illegal EU fisheries in the territory.

Published 29 May 2011
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In its annual country-report on Morocco, the European Commission failed to mention a fundamental element: Morocco’s continued occupation of Western Sahara, and the EU’s complicity therein.
Published 26 May 2011

Images from El Aaiun, 23 May 2011.

Published 25 May 2011

The Moroccan authorities don't accept criticism of their ongoing plunder of Saharawi natural resources light-heartedly. El-Aaiún-resident Ali Saadouni was earlier this month brutally beaten by the Moroccan police for speaking out on the Saharawi’s poor living conditions in a resource-rich homeland.

Published 16 May 2011
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The import of phosphate rock to New Zealand from occupied Western Sahara carries on. New shipment coming in next week.

Published 13 May 2011
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Aicha Dahane travels to Australia to denounce Incitec Pivot\'s import of phosphates from occupied Western Sahara.

Published 13 May 2011
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Last year, WSRW asked Thai firm Precious Shipping to terminate its repeated shipments of phosphate rock from Western Sahara. While still not responding to the request, the firm did another shipment last month.

Published 08 May 2011
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UK-Irish oil minors will start seismic surveys in occupied Western Sahara in June 2011.

Published 07 May 2011
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There is no way for the EU member states to know whether the EU fisheries in Western Sahara is according to the wishes of the people of the territory, as international law prescribes.

Published 06 May 2011
European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH), representing lawyers in 16 European countries, denounce the EU fisheries in occupied Western Sahara, calling it "illegal".
Published 25 April 2011
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A report from the Association of the Bar of the City of New York urges the UN to investigate Morocco's plunder of natural resources in Western Sahara.

Published 24 April 2011
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During the past week, Saharawi victims of severe human rights violations have taken to the streets of El-Aaiún, demanding more respect for their socio-economic rights. Protesters carried slogans calling attention to the ongoing plunder of Saharawi natural resources, perpetrated by Morocco and complicit foreign interests.

Published 22 April 2011
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The US oil firm Kosmos Energy is contributing to the illegal occupation of Western Sahara, and violates both international law and Western Sahara law, according to the representatives of the people of the territory.
Published 23 March 2011
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President of Western Sahara says the EU is prolonging the conflict through its illegal fisheries in his country's waters.

Published 10 March 2011
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"Morocco does not have the right to exploit the area’s resources as if they were its own", states Norwegian Minister for Foreign Affairs, underlining that fisheries in Western Sahara "must be exercised in accordance with the wishes and interests of the population involved".

Published 07 March 2011
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On Wednesday, the Moroccan police brutally put an end to a Saharawi protest denouncing the Saharawi population’s dismal socio-economic living conditions. The protest was staged in front of the Department of Mines and Energy in El-Aaiún, a symbol of the plunder of Western Sahara's natural resources.
Published 04 March 2011