Western Sahara Resource Watch
Acronym: WSRW
General Information
Identification Code: 549530330858-74
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Entity Form: ASBL
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 3/19/2018
Last Update: 6/24/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
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
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EU Office
Address: Mundo BRue d'Edimbourg 26
Post Code: 1050
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data
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Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 0
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