• WSRW consists of organizations and campaigners from more than 40 countries researching and campaigning against the companies working in partnership with the Moroccan government in occupied Western Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • All involved companies have teamed up with the Moroccan government's state owned oil company ONHYM outside of Morocco's internationally recognized borders - in Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The oil companies' activities in Western Sahara through a deal with the Moroccan government will give Morocco even less incentive to engage in peace talks and fulfill its duties under international law. (wsrw.org)
  • Six years on, he finds himself under constant surveillance, and Western Sahara still under Moroccan occupation. (vest-sahara.no)
  • Emmaus' focus was to present their project for increased visibility of the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. (utblick.org)
  • This led to a reported shortage of gas in both Morocco and also Spain, which had previously received gas supplies through the Gazoduc Maghreb Europe (GME) pipeline, despite claims made by Moroccan officials that the move would have little impact. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • The Free Zone or Liberated Territories is a term used by the Polisario Front to describe the part of Western Sahara that lies to the east of the Moroccan Berm (the Moroccan border wall) and west and north of the borders with Algeria and Mauritania , respectively. (wn.com)
  • Neither Morocco, nor the oil companies involved in the exploration work in Western Sahara, have the right to override the Saharawi people's right to self-determination. (wsrw.org)
  • They stem largely from a dispute over the Western Sahara, a territory annexed by Morocco in 1975. (wtrf.com)
  • Sahara since 1975. (lu.se)
  • Ms. Finér explained that while the occupation of Western Sahara has been ongoing since 1975, it receives very little international attention. (utblick.org)
  • As part of the deal, Morocco , which is home to a small but centuries-old Jewish community and has long welcomed Israeli tourists, secured U.S. recognition of its 1975 annexation of the disputed region of Western Sahara. (westernjournal.com)
  • The organization also launches campaigns, encouraging multinational companies and governments not to invest and participate in trade in the occupied territories of Western Sahara until a peaceful solution to the conflict has been found. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • A Japanese-Canadian vessel that transported conflict phosphate from occupied Western Sahara was yesterday received by a floating protest in New Zealand. (wsrw.org)
  • The bay of Mogán at Gran Canary Island will next week be covered in conflict sand from occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • However, things are a-changing - in 2011 the EU voted against a treaty with Morocco on fish trade with occupied territories, for the first time opposing French opinion. (utblick.org)
  • We, the undersigned organizations, urge the UN Security Council to immediately condemn Morocco's current oil development program in Western Sahara, and to call on Morocco to follow through on its commitment under the 1988 settlement plan to allow the organization of a referendum in Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • 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 cease-fire is overseen by the United Nations' MINURSO forces, charged with peacekeeping in the area and the organization of a referendum on independence. (wn.com)
  • The organization was established in 2004, and works in solidarity with the Polisario. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Polisario Front1, the liberation movement of Western Sahara, had fought to claim its independence but failed to do so. (lu.se)
  • The zone was established as a Polisario-held zone in a 1991 cease-fire between the Polisario Front and Morocco, which had been agreed upon together as part of the Settlement Plan . (wn.com)
  • The status of Western Sahara is hotly disputed between Polisario and Morocco, and this includes the titles used to refer to areas under the control of the different sides. (wn.com)
  • Letter dated 29 January 2002 from the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, the Legal Counsel, addressed to the President of the Security Council [1] Morocco bans EU fishing vessels amid Western SaharaBBC News 14.12.2011. (wikipedia.org)
  • A UN Legal Opinion of January 2002, delivered at the request of the Security Council, concluded that oil exploration or exploitation in the Non-Self Governing Territory of Western Sahara is in violation of international law if not in accordance with the wishes and the interests of the people of the territory. (wsrw.org)
  • The Namibian-South African company, Etosha Fishing Corp (Pty) Ltd, has been active in the occupied Western Saharan waters for nearly a year. (vest-sahara.no)
  • Effectively, human rights violations continue unhindered and the UN presence is useless for the Saharawi (Western Saharan) population. (utblick.org)
  • 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)
  • Algeria supports the embattled 2015 international nuclear agreement with Iran as well as Iran's presence in Syria and has refused to declare Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia, a terrorist organization. (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)
  • 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)
  • Decades-old tensions between Morocco and Algeria have deepened in recent years. (wtrf.com)
  • Furthermore, Emmaus is arranging a trip to Western Sahara, where participants will be guided around the area and visit refugee camps in Algeria. (utblick.org)
  • With Israel's normalization, the feud between Algeria and Morocco is escalating. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • Dubbed North Africa's new 'Cold War', the tensions between Morocco and neighboring Algeria threaten to escalate and the consequences of this have a lot more to do with Western meddling in the affairs of the two countries than meets the eye. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • Algeria justified its move further by citing examples, such as Morocco using the Israeli Pegasus spyware against Algerian officials, supporting terrorists groups, failing to uphold bilateral commitments, the normalisation of ties with Israel, and refusing to engage diplomatically on the Western Sahara issue. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • Although many of the accusations made against Morocco by Algeria have been strongly denied, they nonetheless have a real impact on public perception of the two sides. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • He said that "first you are going to have them [Algeria and Morocco] seeking regional supremacy, through the arms race that we have been seeing for nearly a decade now, but also through the diplomatic race. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • 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)
  • But Morocco maintains an untenable hold over large parts of the territory and subjects the Saharawi people under its control to grave and serious human rights violations, while half the Saharawi people is living as refugees in one of the most inhospitable parts of the Algerian desert. (wsrw.org)
  • The following day, alleged drone strikes carried out by Morocco directly targeted clearly marked Algerian trucks near the Mauritanian border with the disputed Western Sahara region. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) is a network organization working on the natural resource situation in Western Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
  • WSRW works to inform international companies about the UN Legal Opinion and of the ethical aspects of business practice in the territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • WSRW asks UN Member States to raise the rights of the people of Western Sahara, for whom Spain continues to bear responsibility. (wsrw.org)
  • WSRW has reason to assume that a shipment of fish oil from occupied Western Sahara was discharged this afternoon in the Netherlands. (wsrw.org)
  • The former Legal Counsel to the UN Security Counsel, Mr. Hans Corell, comments on the EU's fisheries activities in Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The Executive Board of The Liberal Party of Norway demands that Western Sahara be excluded from EU's cooperation with Morocco. (vest-sahara.no)
  • Since 2006, the organization has worked to prevent the European Union entering agreements with Morocco covering the territory of Western Sahara, most importantly its Fisheries Partnership Agreements. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2011 the EU parliament terminated the last Fisheries Partnership Agreements with Morocco for the waters of Western Sahara. (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)
  • Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, has overseen the diplomatic push that saw the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco normalize relations with Israel in historic agreements. (westernjournal.com)
  • The delegations were expected to restore low-level relations between Israel and Morocco and sign several cooperation agreements, including the establishment of direct flights, according to Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat. (westernjournal.com)
  • No government in the world recognizes Morocco's self-proclaimed sovereignty over Western Sahara, and the International Court of Justice has stated that Morocco's claims to the territory are unfounded. (wsrw.org)
  • Meanwhile, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development upgraded Saudi Arabia's gross domestic product growth to 2.9 percent in 2023, from its initial forecast of 2.6 percent in March. (arabnews.com)
  • Morocco has signed an agreement with a Chinese company to build Africa's tallest skyscraper. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • It is part of a larger development that involves the construction of several innovative facilities, including the Grand Theatre of Rabat, the Arts and Culture House, the National Archives of the Kingdom of Morocco, and the Archaeological Museum. (moroccoonthemove.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)
  • Business Brief: Key International LPG Forum to be held in Morocco as Country Readies to Build Tallest Skyscraper in Africa. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • Although announced earlier this year, the final agreement was just initiated by the China Railway Construction Corporation, BMCE Bank of Africa, and Travaux Generaux de Construction de Casablanca, Morocco's leading construction company. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • According to a report by the Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corporation, Morocco attracted $2.3 billion worth of foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2016, leading all North Africa countries. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • Before Israel's establishment in 1948, Morocco was home to a large Jewish population, many of whose ancestors migrated to North Africa from Spain and Portugal during the Spanish Inquisition. (westernjournal.com)
  • It should be said that most Israeli cybersecurity companies develop decent and kosher products. (business-humanrights.org)
  • During the 1990s, Israel and Morocco established low-level diplomatic relations, but Morocco closed its representative office in Tel Aviv after the eruption of the second Palestinian uprising in 2000. (westernjournal.com)
  • The US oil firm Kosmos Energy Ltd in collaboration with Scottish firm Cairn Energy Plc has finished the first ever test-well drilling in the territorial waters of Western Sahara in February this year. (wsrw.org)
  • 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)
  • Setting policies toward territories involved in protracted conflicts poses an ongoing challenge for governments, companies, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). (silkroadstudies.org)
  • I mean, when Western governments decide to attack an Arab or Muslim country, all claims are possible. (blogspot.com)
  • I mean, I know that Western governments have historically been known for their love of the Syrian people, but will the Queen of England also join the debate? (blogspot.com)
  • Ravensdown is "risking potentially disruptive direct action by refusing to allow port workers to register their protest at the importing of Blood Phosphate from the Western Sahara", says the New Zealand Rail and Maritime Transport Union. (wsrw.org)
  • After trafficking and smuggling humans, other crimes the index considers are the narcotics trade, arms trafficking, and wildlife and resource crimes. (fairobserver.com)
  • Operation 1325 is an umbrella organisation working for full international implementation of Resolution 1325 , adopted by the United Nations' Security Council in 2000. (utblick.org)
  • This limited role is attributed to France exercising its veto power within the Security Council in lieu of both its long term alliance with Morocco as well as its historical role as colonsier - hindering any intervention in the area. (utblick.org)
  • The Club de Excelencia en Sostenibilidad, the Spanish business association, has formed a Corporate Governance Commission in collaboration with law firm Garrigues. (responsible-investor.com)
  • The Securities Commission of Malaysia is developing a standardised corporate governance ranking for listed companies, according to national news agency Bernama . (responsible-investor.com)
  • While Western democracies come out on top, Arab countries generally score poorly, with Libya, Yemen, Syria , Somalia and Iraq coming bottom or near the bottom in several categories. (fairobserver.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • As the OIC had had a session of its Contact Group on Kashmir at the level of Permanent Representatives to the UN a month ago, Saudi Arabia apparently thought the Pakistani request was uncalled for, forcing the organisation to take an avoidable anti-India political stance. (anantaaspencentre.in)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • In blatant disrespect for the UN's crystal clear Legal Opinion, Morocco has to date awarded seven oil and gas licenses in the territory. (wsrw.org)
  • The territory in this case is Western Sahara, South of Morocco, who includes the territory as part of its own country. (lu.se)
  • The area is separated from the rest of the Western Sahara territory by "a 2,200 kilometer [1,367 mi]-long wall. (wn.com)
  • They are also supporting the publication of a new book, "Tyst Territorium" - a compilation of reports from Western Sahara by noted investigative journalists Fredrik Laurin and Lars Schmidt. (utblick.org)
  • More specifically SIPRI collects data on military expenditures and the international arms trade. (msu.edu)
  • The headline of their latest data release is that global arms trade volume has reached its highest point since the end of the Cold War in 1990 . (msu.edu)
  • On December 5th 2008, a petition letter signed by 426 organisations was sent to the EU commission demanding that occupied Western Sahara be kept outside of the Morocco-EU socalled Advanced Status cooperation. (vest-sahara.no)
  • No less than 426 organisations signed a petition letter, demanding from the EU Commission that occupied Western Sahara be kept clearly outside of the so- called Advanced Status cooperation that Morocco currently is being granted. (vest-sahara.no)
  • 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)
  • The company behind the exploration blames its Dutch client. (wsrw.org)
  • The vast majority of the listed companies provide basic goods and services to the people living in these disputed territories. (silkroadstudies.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)
  • Amnesty International fears that Mustafa Abdel Dayem's conviction may have been intended to punish him for his public support for the right to self-determination for the people of Western Sahara. (vest-sahara.no)
  • Today, hundreds of thousands of Israeli Jews trace their lineage to Morocco, and a small community of Jews, estimated at several thousand people, continues to live there. (westernjournal.com)
  • Emmaus, is a solidarity-based group working for sustainability and justice, and seeks to highlight the problems in Western Sahara, by drawing attention to the situation. (utblick.org)
  • UK Minister of Defence clarifies error in recent news report regarding UK troops training in occupied Western Sahara. (vest-sahara.no)
  • July 21st, Western Sahara Resource Watch and the Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara sent Etosha a letter asking them to reconsider their engagement in the area. (vest-sahara.no)
  • A group of nine US public pension funds has filed a shareholder resolution asking the board at energy-drilling company Nabors Industries to grant long-term shareholders the right to nominate directors. (responsible-investor.com)
  • If so, and in order to preserve the health of the individual shareholders, the employees, and the directors of the company, the Board of Directors urges the individual shareholders not to physically attend the shareholders meetings. (barco.com)
  • The organization believes that the occupation of Western Sahara will continue as long as Morocco profits from it. (wikipedia.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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an independent organization that conducts research on global security. (msu.edu)
  • Adam Boehler, chief executive of the U.S. international development and finance corporation, said he expected the visit to yield huge trade benefits by bringing an existing relationship out into the open. (westernjournal.com)
  • America's vast Cold-War network of military bases abroad also has given foreign nations leverage over our trade policy. (truthout.org)
  • The aim is to give insights and increased visibility abroad, as traveling through Western Sahara privately, especially in more sensitive areas, is currently very difficult to do. (utblick.org)
  • Agreement, or the Liberalization Agreement, aimed at liberalizing the European imports from Morocco, is also applied to Western Sahara. (lu.se)
  • Morocco is on pace to do as well in 2017, with the announcement by French automotive supplier Faurecia that it will open a plant in the Free Trade Zone in Sale and intends to open another in Kenitra, its second at that location, to focus on interiors. (moroccoonthemove.com)
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  • America's key problem in this regard has been our trade negotiators' uncritical embrace of the assumption that free trade is always best, no matter what the circumstances. (truthout.org)
  • Membership of the SANS.org Community grants you access to cutting edge cyber security news, training, and free tools that can't be found elsewhere. (sans.org)
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  • Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner led a delegation from Israel to Morocco on Tuesday on the first known direct flight since the two countries agreed to establish full diplomatic ties earlier this month as part of a series of U.S.-brokered accords with Arab countries. (westernjournal.com)
  • On the tarmac in Israel, Kushner said that he hopes the delegation's visit will "pave the way for another warm peace between Israel and Morocco," pointing to the emerging ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. (westernjournal.com)
  • Baheej will study each city in Saudi Arabia to identify gaps in a tourist's itinerary, and speaking to Arab News on the sidelines of the Future Hospitality Summit in Abu Dhabi, one of the executives involved with the company gave more details of its future plans. (arabnews.com)
  • Too often the executive has granted trade concessions to accomplish political objectives. (truthout.org)
  • A full reading of the Court's entire opinion shows that the ICJ was very clear that the sovereign power in Western Sahara was and is the native Western Saharans. (vest-sahara.no)
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  • Once the necessary training is completed, the Syrian fighters will be sent to fight in the North African country, according to the London-based organization and a network of informants on Syrian soil. (atalayar.com)
  • Wlah is there any Western leader who has not flown to New York City to discuss the Syrian situation? (blogspot.com)
  • 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)
  • Another measure was the insertion of propaganda in the Western and Third World Press, usually handled by official Soviet news agencies or the Communist Party, in order to undermine the U.S. and its allies. (capitalresearch.org)
  • A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. (state.gov)