• As of 2003, Morocco exported approximately 2.9% of its total exports to the U.S., while it imported approximately 4.1% of its total imports from the U.S.. These numbers show that U.S. trade with Morocco is almost nil when compared with Moroccan trade with the U.S. Therefore, the USMFTA will potentially have a much larger effect on the Moroccan government. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, just prior to the agreement (signed in 2004), a news release by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced major revisions in Moroccan labor laws spurred by the proposed signing of the agreement. (wikipedia.org)
  • U.S. companies that build production facilities in Morocco today will have an added advantage of exporting industrial products duty-free to Europe by way of the Moroccan-E.U. Association Agreement signed in 2000. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition, Moroccan pharmaceutical companies have voiced concerns over increased penalties for intellectual property and patent violations. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Moroccan state company OCP has decided to drop defending the detained conflict mineral cargo in South Africa. (wsrw.org)
  • The value equals around 15% of the entire multilateral humanitarian aid donated to the refugees from Western Sahara, which fled following the brutal Moroccan occupation. (wsrw.org)
  • For over 40 years, a Moroccan state-owned company has exported phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • In February, three Danish journalists who came to see the situation in Western Sahara for themselves were expelled by Moroccan authorities," he added. (euobserver.com)
  • Sweden u-turned on a decision to recognise Western Sahara earlier this year, and signed a extradition agreement allowing it to return Moroccan children that are living on Swedish streets. (euobserver.com)
  • Companies that want to be perceived as taking human rights responsibly, should not bid on a large tender that will connect Morocco's illegal energy production in Western Sahara to the Moroccan grid, WSRW warns. (einnews.com)
  • Systematic human rights abuses, police brutality, violations of international law and fundamental rights, the Sahrawi people of Africa's last colony, Western Sahara, have endured decades of repression at the hands of Moroccan occupying forces. (left.eu)
  • What followed was a sham effort at 'consultation' by the Commission, involving a strange assortment of groups such as Morocco's largest mining firm, officials elected illegally under Moroccan occupation, Moroccan state-owned companies and private corporate interests. (left.eu)
  • MEP Patricia Lalonde, was a board member at a secretive Morocco-based foundation, EuroMedA, alongside former Moroccan government ministers and state officials. (left.eu)
  • Morocco has begun an investigation into the death of a French-Moroccan after he and another Moroccan on jet skis were shot dead by Algerian coastguards, media reports said Friday. (yahoo.com)
  • RABAT, Morocco (AP) - Adidas acknowledged on Friday that the design for its new jersey collection for Algeria's national soccer team was inspired by Morocco's zellige mosaic pattern, resolving a dispute with the Moroccan government that had accused the sport apparel company of "cultural appropriation" of its heritage. (wtrf.com)
  • A lawyer for the Moroccan government, Mourad Elajouti, sent "a legal warning" to Adidas on Sept. 30, demanding that the German company removed the collection within two weeks or released a statement "to identify the zellige art of Morocco as an inspiration" for the design of the Algerian team's jerseys. (wtrf.com)
  • The company added it has "deep respect for the people and craftsmen of Morocco," prompting officials in the North African country to express pride over its efforts to defend Moroccan cultural heritage on the global stage. (wtrf.com)
  • reports Fighting has erupted in several areas between the Moroccan military and the Polisario Front, the Sahrawi liberation movement seeking independence, after the Moroccan military broke into a no-go buffer zone in southern Western Sahara. (parkindymedia.org)
  • And, in recent decades, the Spanish fishing fleet has become dependent on Western Sahara waters (and Moroccan licenses) for up to a third of its catches. (seleccions.org)
  • On September 29, the day the CJEU's decision on Western Sahara was announced, Josep Borrell, the EU's supreme foreign policy chief, issued a joint statement with his Moroccan colleague reaffirming a strategic partnership. (seleccions.org)
  • 28 Nov 2023 There is need for Botswana and South Africa to take full advantage of trade and investment opportunities existing between them and in the region. (einnews.com)
  • The company generated a net profit of 183 million UAE dirhams ($50 million) in the first quarter of 2023 compared to 198 million UAE dirhams in the year-ago period. (arabnews.com)
  • Young refugees in Algeria camps feel betrayed by EU over Western Sahara, threaten attacks on Morocco, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon makes rare trip to 'forgotten' conflict. (euobserver.com)
  • Authorities and religious leaders in Tajikistan and Algeria have in recent weeks accused Iran of subversive activity and propagating Shiism while Morocco last month announced that it was breaking off diplomatic relations with the Islamic republic. (therealnews.com)
  • In the most recent incident, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, a pan-Arab, Saudi-owned newspaper , quoted, former Algerian Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments official Idah Falahi as demanding the withdrawal of Iranian diplomat Amir Mousavi because of his "extensive contacts with civil society groups, through Facebook and social media" and alleged attempts to meddle in the dispute between Morocco and Algeria over the Western Sahara. (therealnews.com)
  • It…became apparent that Mousavi was in fact an Iranian intelligence agent , whose remit was to interfere in the dispute between Algeria and Morocco over the Western Sahara conflict," said Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat columnist Tony Duheaume. (therealnews.com)
  • With the launching of a production line for Iranian vehicles, plus another for the production of medicines, and with the two countries boosting their cooperation enormously in the private sector, Iran has ensnared Algeria through an ongoing succession of trade deals," Mr. Duheaume said. (therealnews.com)
  • There has been no official comment from either Algeria or Morocco about the incident which comes against a backdrop of increased tensions exacerbated by their antagonism over the disputed territory of Western Sahara. (yahoo.com)
  • Decades-old tensions between Morocco and Algeria have deepened in recent years. (wtrf.com)
  • 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)
  • On October 30, Algeria plans to close a gas pipeline carrying Algerian gas to Morocco, Spain and Portugal. (seleccions.org)
  • This is part of a long, smoldering quarrel between Algeria and Morocco that arguably began with the former's independence from France in 1962. (seleccions.org)
  • Morocco is angry with Algeria for its support for the Polisario Front, which wants independence for Western Sahara. (seleccions.org)
  • Relations deteriorated further this summer when Algeria accused Morocco of playing a role in starting several serious forest fires in its territory. (seleccions.org)
  • This could upset Algeria and harden its resolution in its dispute with Morocco. (seleccions.org)
  • Europeans would be wrong to think that Algeria and Morocco frame this dispute around economic and technical factors. (seleccions.org)
  • The UN has concluded that any exploitation of resources in Western Sahara would be illegal if the Saharawi people do not consent to it. (wsrw.org)
  • The latter objective de facto gives credit to an illegal and massive process of demographic engineering by Morocco, resulting in the indigenous Saharawi population to become a minority in its own territory. (euobserver.com)
  • However, Morocco, illegally occupying parts of Western Sahara since 1975, has kept the exports of Western Sahara phosphate rock. (wsrw.org)
  • Morocco has occupied the area since 1975. (euobserver.com)
  • While the 1975 annexation and the resulting conflict forced tens of thousands of Sahrawi people into refugee camps in the desert, European countries and Morocco have remained fixed on exploiting the occupied territory's resources, such as fertile fishing grounds off the coast. (left.eu)
  • They stem largely from a dispute over the Western Sahara, a territory annexed by Morocco in 1975. (wtrf.com)
  • Sahara since 1975. (lu.se)
  • The invasion of Ukraine causes a massive increase in Morocco's profits from its illegal plunder of phosphate rock from 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)
  • Christian Juhl, a green-left MP that initiated the motion, told EUobserver his peers were all worried that Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara was getting worse. (euobserver.com)
  • The Swedish industrial group that in recent years has refused to answer questions on its participation in Morocco's phosphate plunder in Western Sahara now claims the exploitation of the conflict mineral is legal. (wsrw.org)
  • According to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the UN Security Council has not recognised Morocco's annexation of Western Sahara, and Norway sees it as important to abstain from actions that can be seen as a legitimisation of the situation. (vest-sahara.no)
  • Morocco's Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication demanded last month that Adidas pull the new collection off the market alleging that the design on the jerseys of the rival North African team depicts a traditional mosaic of colored earthenware tiles, known in Morocco as zellige. (wtrf.com)
  • The vessel contained 55.000 tonnes of phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Since 1 May, only one vessel of phosphate rock has left occupied Western Sahara, the Common Spirit , which arrived New Zealand this week. (wsrw.org)
  • The export of phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara has never been lower than in 2019. (wsrw.org)
  • Morocco shipped 1.93 million tonnes of phosphate out of occupied Western Sahara in 2018, worth an estimated $164 million, new report shows. (wsrw.org)
  • Recent news from Norway has seemed to quell "phosphogeddon" fears as the country recently announced a mining company has found up to 70 billion tonnes of phosphate rock in the south-western part of the country, along with deposits of other strategic minerals like titanium and vanadium which are used in the aerospace and defense industries. (mddionline.com)
  • With up to 70 billion tonnes of the rock, and a projected 4,500-meter-deep ore body, Norge Mining - the mining company that discovered the deposits - told Euractive that it would theoretically be capable of meeting global phosphate demand for the next 100 years. (mddionline.com)
  • The Maritime Union of Australia has condemned an Australian company resuming trade in phosphate plundered from Western Sahara, a country under an illegal occupation by Morocco. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Western Sahara is often referred to as Africa's last colony. (euobserver.com)
  • This ruling, a mere statement of fact, brought the frozen conflict of Western Sahara to the forefront of the EU agenda, after more than four decades of European passivity or even discreet complicity with the illegal occupying force in Africa's last colony. (euobserver.com)
  • A nearly thirty-year-old ceasefire has ended in occupied Western Sahara-what many consider to be Africa's last colony. (parkindymedia.org)
  • Can AI address Africa's agricultural trade deficit? (tralac.org)
  • Many companies thrive off war and conflict by supplying weapons that kill and maim, by financing war efforts, or by running mercenary armies. (waronwant.org)
  • Sadly, there are many other territorial disputes around the world, for example the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, or Morocco and the Western Sahara. (capitalgroup.com)
  • Crediverso, a company that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2020, raised $3.5 million in what founder and CEO Carlos "Charlie" Hernandez called a pre-Series A funding round. (yahoo.com)
  • This has turned Israeli cyber into a world leader, so much so that over 40% of investments in the sector globally in 2020 went to Israeli companies and entrepreneurs. (business-humanrights.org)
  • Rather than complying with the ruling and negotiating a separate agreement with the UN-recognised representative of the people of Western Sahara, the Polisario Front, the Commission chose to prioritise at all costs the preservation of its relationship with its partner in Rabat. (euobserver.com)
  • 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)
  • Tensions have reached the European Court of Justice, which this week awarded the Polisario Front a legal victory, ruling that a broad economic treaty between the EU and Morocco could not automatically be extended to Western Sahara. (seleccions.org)
  • Similarly, the Court of Justice of the EU on 21 December 2016 judged that trading with the territory would be illegal without such consent. (wsrw.org)
  • In 2016, Morocco earned over 200 million USD from the rock export from the territory. (wsrw.org)
  • Echoing Sweden's position that no trade preferences could be granted to Western Saharan products under the EU-Morocco trade deal , the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in December 2016 that no EU trade or association agreement with Morocco can be applied to the territory of Western Sahara, unless with the explicit consent of the people of the territory. (wsrw.org)
  • In December 2016, the European Court of Justice reaffirmed that Morocco had no sovereignty over Western Sahara. (euobserver.com)
  • Morocco has been illegally occupying Western Sahara for nearly 50 years. (waronwant.org)
  • Therefore, the EU-Morocco trade agreement had been illegally applied to that territory. (euobserver.com)
  • In addition, once the EU's Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area (EMFTA) is complete in 2010, additional duty-free access will flow down to U.S. companies. (wikipedia.org)
  • Valdis Dombrovskis, the EU's trade chief, told Euronews that other measures, besides patent waivers, need to be considered to ramp up global production of COVID-19 vaccines. (euronews.com)
  • Moreover, intra-EAC trade in agricultural products witnessed a remarkable 33 per cent growth from 2018 to 2022. (tralac.org)
  • Mr Sebastian Frey, Senior Trading Manager - Long Products Steel Trading, Americas, Tata International has won the 2022 Sustainability Award from Tata Sons North America. (aryawadwalkar.com)
  • Analyst Shannon Ebrahim said to Ahval News that " South Africa must stop shipments of arms that are later sold to countries at wa r", referring to shipments of ammunition to Turkey, which has maintained a presence in Syria and Libya, despite the UN's call to reduce hostilities in the face of the health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. (atalayar.com)
  • Cape Colony , established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, occupied by the British in 1795, and remained in the British Empire until the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. (nationsonline.org)
  • The largest deposits, around 50 billion tonnes, are in the Western Sahara region of Morocco. (mddionline.com)
  • 50,000 tonnes of liquified gas arrived in occupied Western Sahara last year, according to our first overview of this key trade. (wsrw.org)
  • In December 2015, the European Court of Justice cancelled an EU-Morocco trade agreement. (euobserver.com)
  • Yet even since that momentous judgment, the Swedish government has not provided clear guidance and advice to both government institutions and the Swedish business community in how to relate to the Western Sahara territory or the CJEU judgment. (wsrw.org)
  • Morocco joins Israel and Jordan as the third nation state in North Africa/Middle East to sign a free trade agreement with the U.S. This agreement was a positive move towards President Bush's Middle East Free Trade Initiative set forth in May 2003. (wikipedia.org)
  • Jinhui Shipping said Wednesday that it will take into consideration the analysis of Norwegian authorities regarding avoiding trade with phosphates from Western Sahara. (vest-sahara.no)
  • We respect the Norwegian authorities recommending not to ship phosphates from Western Sahara", said Jinhui vice president Raymond Ching at a conference on the fourth quarter results. (vest-sahara.no)
  • Support groups for the people in Western Sahara claims Jinhui on numerous occasions have transported phosphates from there to New Zealand and Australia, and have posted a video of the bulk vessel 'Jin Cheng' discharging the fertilizer ingredient ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=M-1zk-s1Olo ). (vest-sahara.no)
  • Yara stopped the trade of phosphates from Western Sahara in 2005. (vest-sahara.no)
  • Morocco insists it has sovereignty over the long contested territory. (seleccions.org)
  • Morocco is systematically breaking the human rights of Sahrawi people. (euobserver.com)
  • However, while the Court's judgment meant the European Commission would first need to obtain the consent of the Sahrawi people before finalising agreements with Rabat, the Commission went on to relaunch a new trade deal, the EU-Morocco Association Agreement. (left.eu)
  • In 1991, a truce was negotiated with the promise on a referendum on the right to self-determination of Western Saharan inhabitants, the Sahrawi. (lu.se)
  • the wall separating the Polisario controlled Western Sahara from Morocco on February 3, 2017. (einnews.com)
  • And last week, Morocco became the fourth Arab state to initiate formal relations with Israel after the Trump administration agreed to recognise its occupation of Western Sahara. (palestina-komitee.nl)
  • Morocco last month broke off diplomatic relations with Iran, alleging that Tehran had provided financial and logistical support as well as surface-to-air missiles to the Algerian-backed West Saharan liberation movement , Frente Polisario, using Hezbollah as an intermediary. (therealnews.com)
  • Amid an ongoing dispute on the EU-Morocco trade agreement, the Danish parliament on Thursday (2 June) voted unanimously to warn Danish companies and municipalities from trading with Western Sahara. (euobserver.com)
  • The jersey dispute has been favorably resolved to underline "the pivotal role Morocco plays in the region in defending the intangible cultural heritage in the face of cultural appropriation attempts," he said. (wtrf.com)
  • 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)
  • Though Sweden's official discourse on Western Sahara is rooted in the legal principles applicable to the occupied territory of Western Sahara, subsequent Swedish governments have done remarkably little to firmly anchor that stance in concrete policy vis-à-vis the Swedish business sector. (wsrw.org)
  • Setting policies toward territories involved in protracted conflicts poses an ongoing challenge for governments, companies, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). (silkroadstudies.org)
  • That is one of the conclusions of WSRW's new report, "Sweden and the plunder of Western Sahara", outlining the position of Sweden's government and private sector with regard to commercial activities in or in relation to Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Juhl hopes that Denmark will take up the vacant leadership role in defending Western Sahara's interests in the EU. (euobserver.com)
  • Check out our newly published report on Sweden's involvement in the taking of occupied Western Sahara's natural resources. (wsrw.org)
  • It should be said that most Israeli cybersecurity companies develop decent and kosher products. (business-humanrights.org)
  • This translates to U.S. trade with Morocco at less than .1% of its total imports and exports. (wikipedia.org)
  • Agreement, or the Liberalization Agreement, aimed at liberalizing the European imports from Morocco, is also applied to Western Sahara. (lu.se)
  • But amid all of this - negotiations, votes, rulings, resolutions - the fate of the people of the Western Sahara is at issue. (left.eu)
  • The FTA does not include services or goods originated in the Western Sahara, due its status of non-self governing territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • Based on development of international law, Morocco has no legal right to exploit the territory it holds under occupation. (wsrw.org)
  • Since replacing Spain as coloniser, Morocco has attempted to control a territory about the size of the UK using military force to suppress free speech and pro-independence protests. (left.eu)
  • For example, Russia occupies territories the United States and European Union recognize as parts of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova, yet Crimea is the only Russian-occupied territory subject to Western sanctions. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • The territory in this case is Western Sahara, South of Morocco, who includes the territory as part of its own country. (lu.se)
  • Polisario Front1, the liberation movement of Western Sahara, had fought to claim its independence but failed to do so. (lu.se)
  • Subscribe for a weekly selection of news stories from journalists operating outside traditional corporate systems. (parkindymedia.org)
  • Pretty dire then to see a journalist from Yahoo News - Alexander Nazaryan - promoting a blacklist of other journalists …all who happen to be conservatives. (thecolonialchronicle.com)
  • The answer is from countries, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Bolivia, Chile and Morocco, where environmental destruction and workers' exploitation will continue and even intensify. (tni.org)
  • The Company s Business Principles articulate our commitment to transparency, ethics, human rights, safety and the environment. (euro-petrole.com)
  • The present absence of advice from the government has led to a multitude of interpretations of legal principles applicable to Western Sahara, which is neither fair to Saharawis nor to Swedish entrepreneurs", says Erik Hagen from Western Sahara Resource Watch. (wsrw.org)
  • Rather than conducting US international economic relations on sound economic and commercial principles, the executive has set trade and monetary policy in a foreign aid context. (truthout.org)
  • By contrast, products from Russian-controlled Transnistria enter the United States as products of Moldova, and the European Union allows Transnistria to enjoy the benefits of a trade agreement with Moldova. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • A delegation from the committee on international trade (INTA), including myself, visited the cities of Dakhla and Laayoune in September. (euobserver.com)
  • In relation to the huge U.S. economy, the free trade agreement is expected to have a positive, but small overall effect on the U.S. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has said that the agreement with Morocco is the "best market access package to date of any U.S. free trade agreement signed with a developing country. (wikipedia.org)
  • It supposedly doesn't matter whether or not free trade is reciprocated, whether or not our trading partners manipulate their currencies, whether or not America runs a trade deficit … the list goes on and on. (truthout.org)
  • During the Cold War, active measures were used to manipulate Western perceptions of the Soviet communist regime, promote USSR's foreign policy goals, and undermine its opponents. (capitalresearch.org)
  • One consistent argument we are hearing is that this cannot be censorship , as it almost exclusively is being done by private companies. (thecolonialchronicle.com)
  • It is not immediately clear to Western Sahara Resource Watch what will now happen to the vessel and the cargo next. (wsrw.org)
  • The newspaper reported that Iran was seeking to recruit Algerian Shiites who travel to the holy city of Karbala in Iraq and was using Iranian companies as vehicles to promote Shiism. (therealnews.com)
  • With the closure of the gas pipeline, Morocco will have to find ways to do without Algerian gas entirely, although its energy sector has already foreseen this possibility. (seleccions.org)
  • The global arms trade supports repressive regimes, fuels wars and armed violence, and reinforces global oppression and inequality. (waronwant.org)
  • America's vast Cold-War network of military bases abroad also has given foreign nations leverage over our trade policy. (truthout.org)
  • Most notably, in Morocco, there has been concern regarding the reduction in tariffs for agricultural products and the increase in intellectual property and patent standards. (wikipedia.org)
  • Yet products from Nagorno-Karabakh - which the United States and European Union recognize as part of Azerbaijan - freely enter Western markets labeled as products of Armenia. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • The new investment enables the company -- which has helped thousands of users in the U.S. Latino community with financial products advice -- to jump into legal tech and services. (yahoo.com)
  • On a visit to Israel, the country's trade minister, Zayed bin Rashid al-Zayani, said Bahrain was open to importing products from Israel wherever they were manufactured. (palestina-komitee.nl)
  • nology company, designs and develops networked visualization products for the Entertainment, Enterprise and Healthcare markets. (barco.com)
  • Our assets include existing production and development projects offshore Ghana, large discoveries offshore Mauritania and Senegal, as well as exploration licenses with significant hydrocarbon potential offshore Suriname, Sao Tome and Principe, Morocco and Western Sahara. (euro-petrole.com)
  • The Company's asset portfolio includes existing production and other major development projects offshore Ghana , as well as exploration licenses with significant hydrocarbon potential offshore Ireland , Mauritania , Morocco (including Western Sahara ) and Suriname. (kosmosenergy.com)
  • Shares in the US Kerr-McGee was previously withdrawn from the Norwegian Government's Pension Fund because it was involved in oil exploration offshore Western Sahara. (vest-sahara.no)
  • Kosmos (NYSE: KOS) is a leading independent oil and gas exploration and production company focused on frontier and emerging areas along the Atlantic Margin. (euro-petrole.com)
  • Our monitoring covers the risks surrounding Chinese ADR 1 s and VIE 2 -structured companies, including the risk of sanctions from either side. (capitalgroup.com)
  • It was, as of 2011, one of nine free trade agreements entered into by the U.S. since 1985. (wikipedia.org)
  • His contribution was short, but it made a point, coming from a man who had actually sat at the table where many of America's key trade agreements were negotiated, that our government would do well to grasp. (truthout.org)
  • I now understand why so many of the trade agreements that we negotiated never delivered the promises that were made and, if continued, never will. (truthout.org)
  • It actually gives one hope that, behind the facade projected by the Obama administration's ever-chipper trade diplomats, who still say (in public) that the US is going to be able to negotiate its way out of its $300 billion to $600 billion trade deficits by signing even more trade agreements, wiser heads are starting to cotton onto what's really going on. (truthout.org)
  • How can the United States, the sole global superpower, get pushed around by foreign nations when it comes to negotiating trade agreements? (truthout.org)
  • If one treats the universal benevolence of freer trade as a given, then it quite logically follows for the US to be very lax about guarding its own interests when negotiating trade agreements with foreign nations. (truthout.org)
  • After all, even if our trading partners do engage in all these varieties of mischief, these agreements will still be good for us. (truthout.org)
  • In fact, if one assumes that free trade is good across-the-board, trade agreements don't really demand all that much attention qua economic instruments at all, and the door is wide open to use them as tools for other purposes. (truthout.org)
  • is a free source of independent news for tens of millions of people around the world, but less than 1% of our global audience donates to support our critical journalism. (democracynow.org)
  • News seeped out of towns like Alamata and Mlazat that the drones' missiles were killing not just suspected rebels but dozens of people, many of them civilians, as they rode buses or shopped in markets. (juancole.com)
  • The vast majority of the listed companies provide basic goods and services to the people living in these disputed territories. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • The Swedish government has a responsibility to issue clear guidance on how companies and governmental bodies ought to act in relation to Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The United States public relations firm helping Egypt organise COP27 also works for major oil companies and has been accused of greenwashing on their behalf, report Ben Webster and Lucas Amin . (greenleft.org.au)
  • But Morocco stopped the UN-negotiated referendum from taking place. (euobserver.com)
  • However, Morocco has persistently worked to defer the referendum, which has still not taken place. (left.eu)
  • It surely had no interest in allowing its political arguments be tested by an independent court", stated Davide Contini of Western Sahara Resource Watch. (wsrw.org)
  • The largest private sector natural gas company in the region disclosed that the move aligns well with the UAE's new Commercial Companies Law that abolished a requirement that UAE nationals own 51 percent of onshore firms. (arabnews.com)
  • This prompted Madrid to raid € 3 billion on the profits of Spanish energy companies, like renewable energy star Iberdrola. (seleccions.org)
  • Of all the blurbs I got for my book, "Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace It and Why," my favorite is one I got from Robert B. Cassidy, a distinguished former trade diplomat whose career included being Assistant US Trade Representative for China, Asia and the Pacific. (truthout.org)
  • But the reports from recent days regarding offensive-cyber company NSO, which joins a long list of exposes in Calcalist over recent years, must push the responsible authorities, both inside and outside of the industry, to reassess the situation. (business-humanrights.org)
  • Not only does it contribute to food security, but it also fuels employment, industrial development, trade and investment. (tralac.org)
  • Morocco used the accord to sell goods from occupied territories, which is illegal under international law. (euobserver.com)
  • Non-commercial news needs your support. (democracynow.org)
  • Opening our company fully to foreign ownership will support the UAE's vision of strengthening its dynamic capital markets by attracting greater numbers of international investors and deepening market liquidity," said Dana Gas Chairman Hamid Jafar in a press statement. (arabnews.com)
  • With the discovery, Norway's minister of trade and industry said the government is considering fast-tracking a large mine in the area. (mddionline.com)
  • Norway's minister of trade and industry said that the country has an obligation to develop "the world's most sustainable mineral industry. (mddionline.com)
  • It quoted Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry, Datuk Jacob Dungau Sagan, as saying the initiative was meant for adoption by the ASEAN countries. (responsible-investor.com)
  • Many demonstrate in search of social justice, against the assassination of activists, against the plundering of their natural resources by Morocco and the EU. (left.eu)
  • In the city of Tapachula on the Guatemala-Mexico border, young men in search of jobs wait along the tracks for a slow-moving freight train passing through the city en route to the north. (grist.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)
  • Pressure the government to end its trade in arms with human rights abusing regimes. (waronwant.org)
  • Yesterday during remarks at the AIPAC annual conference, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo referred to the recent publication by the UN Human Rights Office of a database of companies that operate in the West Bank. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • The UN Human Rights Office on Feb. 12 published a database of 112 companies that operate in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Green Left conveys news and analysis that ecosocialists like me can't get elsewhere - both on vital issues in our region, and the big international issues. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The region of Western Africa and parts of Central Africa south of the Sahara and north of the 10° latitude are named Soudan on the map. (nationsonline.org)
  • What is the incentive for Morocco to engage in peace talks when it has Europe's consent to carry on ignoring international law? (left.eu)