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Thanked the Greens for its solidaritymdg_khayab_510.jpg
16.04 - 2012 23:59
Human rights activits Sultana Khaya thanked the Green Party of Norway for the support for the Saharawi cause at the annual meeting in Bergen, Norway, 15 April.
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8 Norwegian youth parties organised Western Sahara conference16.04 - 2012
The eight political youth parties of region of Hordaland, Norway, together organised a full day conference on Western Sahara at the University of Bergen. Read more
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Demonstrated for human rights in front of French embassy in Oslo14.04 - 2012
France objects to human rights in Western Sahara. Some twenty people demonstrated for respect of human rights in front of France's embassy in Oslo today. Read more



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FMC Corp disappointed over Norway blacklisting23.12 - 2011
FMC Corporation states that they have stopped importing phosphates from Western Sahara to Spain and that they should never have been kicked out of the Norwegian government's pension fund for lack of ethics. Read more
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Yara denies new Western Sahara purchases19.12 - 2011
The Norwegian fertilizer firm Yara states their position remains unchanged, and that they do not purchase phosphates from Western Sahara. Yara's new agreement with Moroccan phosphate firm specifically excludes purchases from Western Sahara, according to the company.Read more


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08.12 - 2011
Covington & Burling, the US lobby law firm that lobbies for the Moroccan phosphate trade from occupied territory of Western Sahara travelled all the way to Oslo to explain to an investor how the Saharawis supposedly benefit from the trade. Still, the firm refuse to talk to Saharawis or civil society about the industry.
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Wrote book on Western Sahara, Norway and the hope of a free land01.12 - 2011
Asria Mohamed Taleb, journalist from Western Sahara currently living in Norway, today launched a book on the conflict. Download the book here.  Read more
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Bastagli: the UN is failing in Western Sahara06.11 - 2011
At a conference in Bergen 27 October, former UN Special Representative to Western Sahara aired his disappointment over the international community’s inability to solve the last colonial issue in Africa.Read more



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Daddach criticising Morocco closing court doors02.11 - 2011
Former Rafto laureate criticised lack of openness in Moroccan courts at a seminar in Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Bergen, Norway. He was himself denied access to a court last month. Read more
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27 Oct: Western Sahara conference in Bergen23.10 - 2011
Big names arriving Bergen: A former UN top official, a former Rafto Award Laureate, important academics. Come to Western Sahara conference 27 October! Conference language: English.Read more


Sahara refugee camps: Iodine in camel milk leads to goitrehenjum_disputas_2011_510.jpg
21.10 - 2011
Sigrun Henjum defended today her PhD thesis on the iodine levels in the Saharawi refugee camps in Algeria.
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Series of Norwegian nutrition studies in the refugee camps13.10 - 2011
A Norwegian humanitarian organisation and a university college has cooperated on researching the nutrition levels of the Saharawi refugees. The cooperation has led to a series of publications. See the studies here. Read more
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Firms in Western Sahara fail human rights due dilligence 10.10 - 2011
Associate Professor, Hans Morten Haugen, on a conference on Corporate Social Responsability in Norway, elaborated on how Norwegian importing firms relate to the advice of the Norwegian government to abstain from Western Sahara trade, and how they omit the proper due dilligence on human rights. Read more



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Oil subcontractor pulls out of Western Sahara 08.10 - 2011
"I have no problem in stating, in retrospect, that it might have been a bad idea to take this assignment”, CEO of seismic services firm Spectrum ASA told media today. Now, Irish oil minor San Leon has to find another subcontractor to process the geological data they collect from the occupied territory in violation of international law.Read more
These trucks are laying the ground for illegal oil industry31.07 - 2011


Morocco is continuing its oil programme on the Boujdour onshore block. These cars were filmed as they did geological surveys in the occupied territories.
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Norway: "Saharawi's wishes must be respected"barn-vs-norge.jpg
30.06 - 2011
Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs underlines that the wishes of the Sahrawis must be taken into account upon undertaking business in the territory of Western Sahara.
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Norwegian government clarifies Western Sahara position22.06 - 2011
“We urge businesses to stay away from the territory since we do not recognise the annexation of Western Sahara" stated Norway's  Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Friday. An opening to invest in the "illegitimately annexed" territory is given under the condition it benefits the local population - “and with the local population we of course refer to the Sahrawi people”, said the Deputy Minister. Read more
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In Western Sahara, the police are the ones throwing stones29.05 - 2011
See Youtube video of the stone throwing Moroccan police in El Aaiun. The images shows the police attacking Sahrawi activists who demand autopsy of a Sahrawi killed by a policeman earlier this year. Read more



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Freedom and democracy in the Arab world 31.03 - 2011
The Norwegian Support Committee of Western Sahara supports the struggle for democracy across the Arab world. Dictators and security forces have for too long dominated the region and suppressed the peoples’ call for freedom. Read more
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Free West Papua! 31.03 - 2011
The Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara stands in solidarity with the people of West Papua and their struggle for self determination. West Papua, the western half of the island of New Guinea, is a former Dutch colony occupied by Indonesia. It borders the independent state of Papua New Guinea. Read more



News archive:
27.12 - 2010Producer in Morocco stops purchases from Western Sahara
23.12 - 2010”Our opinion? Ask Polisario”, Spain says
01.12 - 2010Record customs claim against Western Sahara trader
27.11 - 2010Human Rights Watch: Beatings, Abuse by Moroccan Security Forces
24.11 - 2010Liberals strongly criticize Morocco
22.11 - 2010W.Sahara: Demonstration in Oslo against illegal Spanish fisheries
10.11 - 2010Saharawis demonstrated in front of Moroccan embassy in Oslo
08.11 - 2010The camp that was stormed
08.11 - 2010Liberal Party of Norway: Norway must protest vis-a-vis Morocco
08.11 - 2010Thousands of people used to stay here...
08.11 - 2010Riots in Western Sahara
08.11 - 2010Here, the protest camp is destroyed
08.11 - 2010Protest camps destroyed. Demonstrations in El Aaiun.
26.10 - 2010Young Saharawi shot and killed
23.10 - 2010Moroccan army throws stones at Saharawis
02.10 - 2010Fugro surprise party at University of Oslo
30.08 - 2010Manipulative film ‘Stolen’ rejected by Norwegian film festival
19.06 - 2010Fetim lost in court – judge did not consider the offences
19.06 - 2010"Documentary" makes up story about a Saharawi woman
17.06 - 2010Fetim has taken Norwegian film festival to court






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Since 1975, three quarters of the territory of Western Sahara has been occupied by Morocco. A majority of the population is still living in refugee camps in Algeria. Those who remained in their homeland are subjected to serious harassment from the Moroccan occupiers. For more than 40 years the Sahrawis have been waiting for the fullfilment of their legitimate right to self-determination.

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Order booklet on Western Sahara

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A 20 page long booklet on the Western Sahara conflict has been published by the Norwegian Refugee Council. Order a hard copy version of the publication "Occupied Country, Displaced People" here.
Book on international law & Western Sahara

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As far as we know it is the first collective work published in English dealing with the legal aspects of the Western Sahara problem. Order here.

News from Sahara Update
17.02.2012
Reuters: EU parliament approves Morocco agriculture trade deal
14.02.2012
WSRW report reveals massive agri-industry in occupied Western Sahara
01.02.2012
UN News Centre: Newsmakers: UN envoy Christopher Ross on Western Sah
01.02.2012
Greenpeace: Mercadona is one of the worst firms of 2011
11.01.2012
NYT: European Official Presses for Moroccan Fishing Treaty


Follow the news about EU's illegal fisheries in Western Sahara


The EU pays Morocco to fish in occupied Western Sahara.

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