• A subsidiary of the US company has signed a contract with the Moroccan king's energy firm for a large wind farm in Western Sahara, consistently referring to the location as part of Morocco. (wsrw.org)
  • German powerhouse MAN Diesel & Turbo has been contracted by the Moroccan government to extend the diesel generators in El Aaiun, occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Two previous attempts of the Moroccan government to install diesel power stations in Morocco proper, in Tiznit and Ait Melloul, were nipped in the bud, as civil protests broke out and concerns for environment and public health came to the fore. (wsrw.org)
  • Though Saharawis in Western Sahara also need petroleum products for civilian life-sustaining purposes, the petroleum is mostly used by the Moroccan administration, army, settlers and for plunder of the territory's rich natural resources. (wsrw.org)
  • The German insurance company Allianz goes all in when it politically defends the brutal Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Sahara since 1975. (lu.se)
  • Saharawis in Bilbao, Spain, demonstrated as a cargo vessel is arriving to pick up more controversial windmill components for occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • From the British East India Company in the 18th-century to airlines and energy companies of the present, private corporations have long found themselves mired in international conflicts. (time.com)
  • Most of the depictions on the map are probably the result of limited research and sloppy editing instead of genuine stances MrBeast takes on wildly divisive international conflicts. (axenewsroom.com)
  • By 2030, half of Morocco's wind energy production could be generated illegally in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Siemens Gamesa are profiting from Morocco's plunder of illegally occupied land & violent repression of the people of Western Sahara. (waronwant.org)
  • Morocco has been illegally occupying Western Sahara for nearly 50 years. (waronwant.org)
  • Just one year ago, WSRW published the " Fuelling the Occupation " report, documenting transports and volumes of petroleum products into occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • This symbiotic relationship between the fossil fuel industry and police often means that the companies that are polluting Black and Brown communities - like Marathon Petroleum in Detroit, Valero in Corpus Christi, or Shell in Louisiana - are the same ones that are aligned with and propping up police forces in these same cities. (truthout.org)
  • Marathon Petroleum, the nation's largest oil refining company, has a history of environmental pollution that disproportionately impacts the health of Black and Brown communities where their refineries are based. (truthout.org)
  • Western Sahara Resource Watch works to uncover the plunder of the territory and to keep the companies and governments accountable for their support to the occupation. (wsrw.org)
  • Tech companies' executive ranks are filled with former high-powered government officials, Supreme Court-like oversight boards impose First Amendment obligations on these private entities, they send "ambassadors" to build relationships with foreign governments. (time.com)
  • This is partly due to Google's role in our lives as a purveyor of fact, combined with the sense that digital mapping is scientific, objective, and unbiased, as well as the reality that many governments have outsourced data management functions to private companies. (time.com)
  • The Swiss-Russian company EuroChem was most likely behind a controversial imports of conflict minerals to Estonia in October. (wsrw.org)
  • The Mexican imports of phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara is picking up pace. (wsrw.org)
  • Agreement, or the Liberalization Agreement, aimed at liberalizing the European imports from Morocco, is also applied to Western Sahara. (lu.se)
  • A gas pipeline is scheduled from Nigeria to Morocco - through Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • In 2022, 38 countries had a negative trade balance in agricultural products, with Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco and Angola leading the ranking with more than $3bn lost over the year. (tralac.org)
  • A hearing in the EU Parliament indicates that there are many questions, and still few answers, on the EU's response to the EU Court ruling annulling bilateral agreements with Morocco over the inclusion of occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Today, the EU Court of Justice has struck a blow to the EU's practice of applying trade and fisheries agreements with Morocco to occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • MAN Diesel & Turbo can do without the association to Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • WSRW maintains that the electrification of Western Sahara is advancing or entrenching Morocco's illegal occupation of the territory. (wsrw.org)
  • The Spanish company today, yet again, refers to the territory as part of Morocco. (wsrw.org)
  • We call upon MAN to immediately reconsider its engagement and abstain from installing the equipment in the occupied territory", WSRW wrote in a letter to the company today. (wsrw.org)
  • The judicial activism in a relatively uncharted area in this field, external relations, was analyzed through a qualitative case study of the CJEU case Polisario Front , concerning the application of a EU trade agreement to the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara. (lu.se)
  • The territory in this case is Western Sahara, South of Morocco, who includes the territory as part of its own country. (lu.se)
  • The map affirms the Sahrawi Republic's claim over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, but also draws Morocco up to the de facto border, which conflicts with both countries' claim over the land. (axenewsroom.com)
  • Furthermore, these companies sponsor events and galas that celebrate the police and remind the public that police power is backed up by corporate power. (truthout.org)
  • Militarised wars and conflicts are major causes of global poverty. (waronwant.org)
  • Fossil fuel companies support police foundations across the country, especially in major oil producing states such as Texas and Louisiana. (truthout.org)
  • Certain borders are already sources of major global conflict, and MrBeast appeared to take some divisive stances by depicting them on the map. (axenewsroom.com)
  • In a move that surprised no one, the EU Council has appealed the recent EU Court of Justice stopping EU trade and fisheries in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The Italian company Enel is one of the firms that have taken the exact same approach as the EU when carrying out 'stakeholder consultations' in Western Sahara - a procedure now found invalid by the EU Court of Justice. (wsrw.org)
  • The EU Court of Justice will rule on the Union's trade and fisheries agreements with Morocco in occupied Western Sahara on 29 September. (wsrw.org)
  • In many states , these companies go so far as to back laws to criminalize protests of dirty energy projects such as pipelines, openly weaponizing the police and criminal justice system to protect the profits of the fossil fuel industry and the banks that fund them. (truthout.org)
  • For most global users, Google Maps separates Western Sahara from Morocco with a dashed line and uses the same font as sovereign countries in its label, but in Morocco, Western Sahara disappears. (time.com)
  • Sadly, there are many other territorial disputes around the world, for example the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, or Morocco and the Western Sahara. (capitalgroup.com)
  • Chevron , one of the top integrated oil and gas companies in the world, with a market capitalization value that ranked only behind ExxonMobil at the end of 2019. (truthout.org)
  • As one of the most powerful companies in the world, Google Maps is often treated as the ultimate authority in mapping. (time.com)
  • Yet, Morocco presents itself as best-in-class on the energy transition. (wsrw.org)
  • We stand with our partners and all human rights defenders in the Global South in the fight for their land and livelihoods, and we hold UK-based mining companies to account for the violence they inflict on communities. (waronwant.org)
  • Today, supranational technology and social media companies increasingly take on government-like functions of their own accord and wade into activities we typically associate with the domain of sovereign states. (time.com)
  • Multinational mining companies are buying up land across the planet to extract natural resources, contracting state forces, private mercenary companies, and even illegal paramilitary groups to protect their interests and repress local opposition. (waronwant.org)
  • Oil and gas companies, private utilities, and financial institutions that bankroll fossil fuels are all big backers of police foundations , which privately raise money to buy weapons, equipment, and surveillance technology for police departments, bypassing already outsized public police budgets. (truthout.org)
  • Google Maps reflects the views of one private company that has a duty to maximize shareholder value. (time.com)
  • Polisario Front1, the liberation movement of Western Sahara, had fought to claim its independence but failed to do so. (lu.se)
  • What this means is that cherry tomatoes from Western Sahara can be sold at the European market labeled as originating from Morocco. (lu.se)
  • Such a partnership is highly unfortunate in view of conflict resolution. (wsrw.org)
  • As the weapon spreads across the globe, some U.S. lawmakers seek to crack down on the country, saying it's exploiting its NATO status to obtain key parts from Western manufacturers. (juancole.com)
  • Email updates on news, actions, and events in your area. (eff.org)
  • The Chinese company China Molybdenum - which imported phosphate rock to its subsidiary in Brazil - will no longer purchase phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • And U.S. officials meeting with their Turkish counterparts raised reports of drone use in the conflict. (juancole.com)
  • As expected, the Council of the EU has appealed the ruling of the EU General Court annulling the application of EU-Morocco deals in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The same companies that drive environmental racism in Black and Brown communities through toxic and climate-changing pollution also fund police power in cities that stretch from Houston and Detroit to New Orleans and Salt Lake City. (truthout.org)
  • Fossil fuel companies, utilities, and the banks that fund them are prominent political players in any local or regional power structure. (truthout.org)
  • During a press conference last week, Polisario invited the Union to conversations on continuation of fisheries offshore Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)