Western Sahara Resource Watch

Acronym: WSRW

General Information

Identification Code: 549530330858-74

Website: https://www.wsrw.org

Entity Form: ASBL

Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

Registration Date: 3/19/2018

Last Update: 6/24/2024

Mission & Interests

Goals: WSRW's principal purpose is to monitor and comment about the taking of natural resources from the Non-Self-Governing-Territory of Western Sahara, and to address related human rights abuses and environmental protection issues.

Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests

Interests:

Agriculture and rural development
Budget
Climate action
Consumers
Customs
Energy
Enlargement
European neighbourhood policy
External relations
Food safety
Foreign affairs and security policy
Humanitarian aid and civil protection
International co-operation and development
Justice and fundamental rights
Maritime affairs and fisheries
Single market
Taxation
Trade

Levels of Interest:

global

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: WSRW works to ensure that EU policies affecting Western Sahara and the UN peace process pertaining to the territory, are carried out in conformity with applicable EU case law and international law. Our work spans policy areas that include International Trade, Development, Fisheries, Human Rights, Foreign Affairs and Consumer Affairs, Renewable Energy, among others, with a particular focus on EU-Morocco and EU-Maghreb relations.

Communication Activities: Report: "Above the Law - How the EU, blatantly, imports fish products from occupied Western Sahara, ignoring its own Court of Justice." Published December 2020. Several articles on our website in relation to EU fisheries in Western Sahara, trade imports from the territory, and the proceedings before the EU Court of Justice on EU-Morocco bilateral agreements that are being applied to the territory.

Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Western Sahara

Head Office

Address: Mundo BRue d'Edimbourg 26

Post Code: 1050

City: Brussels

Country: BELGIUM

Phone:

Indic Phone: 32

Phone Number: 468221440

EU Office

Address: Mundo BRue d'Edimbourg 26

Post Code: 1050

City: Brussels

Country: BELGIUM

Phone:

Indic Phone: 32

Phone Number: 468221440

Financial Data

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Contributions:

Total Budget: 73000

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Membership Information

Members25 Percent: 1

Members50 Percent: 2

Members75 Percent: 1

Members: 4

Members F T E: 2

Info Members: Of the number of persons involved in the EU-related activities of our work, three are helping out on a pro bono basis.

Structure

Structure Type: Structure

Is Member Of: Affiliated organisations are: Western Sahara Campaign UK - http://www.smalgangen.org/a138x972 Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara - https://vest-sahara.no/en/about-the-organisation

Organisation Members: WSRW is part of the network of the Anna Lindh Foundation - https://www.annalindhfoundation.org/partner-search/70