Western Sahara Resource Watch

🔴 Morocco’s trade in occupied #WesternSahara’s phosphate rock is shrinking in buyers but growing in value. Our latest report shows #Morocco made around $376.5 million in 2025 from selling #Saharawi phosphate rock to just 3 international buyers. wsrw.org/en/news/reco...

📢 Out now! Check the latest edition of P for Plunder, documenting the volumes, values and customers of #Morocco’s illegal trade in #phosphate rock from occupied #WesternSahara in 2025. 👉 wsrw.org/en/news/reco... #conflictminerals #BizHumanRights #ESG

🔴 Occupied #WesternSahara: the illegal phosphate trade continues. So does our investigation. 📢 P for Plunder 2026 - coming soon!

Moroccan companies in occupied #WesternSahara use foreign certification schemes to reach international markets. Check out our new report on controversial "responsibility" and "sustainability" labels. wsrw.org/en/news/new-...

📢 OUT NOW! 🌍 New report: Greenwashing Occupation. Renewables cannot erase occupation. Today we publish the most comprehensive mapping of #Morocco’s energy projects in #WesternSahara - and the companies enabling them. wsrw.org/en/news/new-...

🚨 TODAY: EU Member States vote on a trade deal covering occupied #WesternSahara - rushed through after mere days of scrutiny. It will take effect despite 10 CJEU rulings, and without Saharawi or @europarl.europa.eu consent. This isn’t rule-of-law. It’s rubber-stamping occupation.

If the #IFS logo is supposed to safeguard against #foodfraud, then why does it appear on products from occupied #WesternSahara wrongly labelled as Moroccan? IFS won’t answer. 📖https://wsrw.org/en/news/is-ifs-food-facilitating-food-fraud #IFSFood #DueDiligence #Traceability

📣 The Alliance for Water Stewardship is whitewashing occupation. It certified Azura’s tomato farms in occupied #WesternSahara - mistaking the location, ignoring EU court rulings, and failing to question #Morocco’s role. Full story: wsrw.org/en/news/alli... #AWS #WaterJustice #HumanRights

EXPOSED: As the #EU–#Morocco trade deal nears annulment, Morocco’s agri-exporters are lobbying Brussels to keep trade flowing from occupied #WesternSahara - despite clear #CJEU rulings. 📢 The EU must now choose: uphold the law or enable violations of it. wsrw.org/en/news/brus...

📢Out now! The 2025 edition of P for Plunder! Our annual update on #Morocco's exports of occupied #WesternSahara's phosphates reveals a steadily declining number of companies involved. In 2024, only four importers purchased the #conflictmineral. wsrw.org/en/news/wsrw...

Since 2019, we observed an annual small shipment of phosphate rock from occupied #WesternSahara to an unknown importer in #Japan. We've now identified the company importing the #conflictmineral. wsrw.org/en/news/japa...

Bureau Veritas is increasingly assisting foreign corporations on the occupied territory of #WesternSahara, through participating in or sponsoring events and certifying Moroccan and foreign businesses in the territory. wsrw.org/en/news/bure...

Rather than fully acknowledging the implications of the #CJEU rulings, #SiemensEnergy now selectively highlights aspects to seemingly justify a continued, controversial involvement in occupied #WesternSahara. wsrw.org/en/news/siem...

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Western Sahara Resource Watch. wsrw.org/en/news/wsrw...

Finally! The EU institutions now refer to the CJEU in a factually correct way!

The highest Court in the EU has ruled that Western Sahara products cannot be labelled as originating from the neighbouring country Morocco. Help us to investigate in your supermarket. wsrw.org/en/news/help...