FRONTPAGE          CONTACT          ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN          READ MORE     









This campaign is an initiative of:




Demonstration against EU-Moroccan relations
granada3_510.jpg

As the EU and Morocco met in Spain last week, pro Saharawi sympathisers called for the end of the Moroccan occupation.
Published: 09.03 - 2010 18:37Printer version    
While Morocco maintains its illegal occupation of Western Sahara, the EU seeks further cooperation with the Moroccan government. But the issue of Western Sahara remains more or less unmentioned in the EU-Moroccan talks.

As the two parties met in Granada, Spain, pro Saharawis organised demonstrations and meetings of support of the Sahrawi people, and urging the EU to respect and protect international law on the issue.

A group of Portuguese demonstrators demanded the EU to stop its fisheries partnership with Morocco, which also covers occupied Western Sahara, in violation of legal opinions from the UN and the European Parliament.

granada2_509.jpg

granada4_509.jpg

granada5_509.jpg

granada8_509.jpg

granada9_509.jpg

granada1_509.jpg


 facebook    digg    reddit    del.icio.us    furl   

Top
News:

09.09 - 2010 / 09.09 - 2010Commission still awaits data from Morocco for renewal fisheries pact
20.07 - 2010 / 05.11 - 2009Sign the petition: Stop the EU fisheries in Western Sahara!
14.07 - 2010 / 14.07 - 2010EU Commission and MEPs deem future EU-Moroccan FPA uncertain
11.07 - 2010 / 11.07 - 2010"Europe's assault on Western Sahara"
07.07 - 2010 / 06.07 - 2010Nordic parliamentarians call for halt of unethical EU fisheries
01.07 - 2010 / 01.07 - 2010"Problems renewing the fisheries agreement with Morocco"
01.07 - 2010 / 01.07 - 2010EU puts self-interest before peace in Western Sahara
01.07 - 2010 / 01.07 - 2010WSRW: "Commission misrepresents international law"
01.07 - 2010 / 24.06 - 2010European Commission defends its fisheries
23.06 - 2010 / 23.06 - 2010Swedish Social Democrats ask Greek help to stop EU fisheries
05.06 - 2010 / 05.06 - 2010Fishing in Western Sahara Hot EU Question
04.06 - 2010 / 03.06 - 2010Morocco rejects visit from European Parliament
31.05 - 2010 / 30.05 - 2010You are paying for this robbery
20.05 - 2010 / 20.05 - 2010Endangered biodiversity, endangered people
12.05 - 2010 / 12.05 - 2010Western Sahara not part of EFTA-Morocco free trade agreement
12.05 - 2010 / 12.05 - 2010Norway: No way for Western Sahara free trade
05.04 - 2010 / 05.04 - 2010"Does European Commission know the consequences of the agreement?"
14.03 - 2010 / 14.03 - 2010GUE/NGL demands cancellation of illegal EU-Morocco fisheries agreement
14.03 - 2010 / 14.03 - 2010"There can be no doubt about its illegality"
09.03 - 2010 / 09.03 - 2010Demonstration against EU-Moroccan relations






EN  EN ES FR

The EU is paying Morocco to fish in occupied Western Sahara. The EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement is both politically controversial and in violation of international law. The international Fish Elsewhere! campaign demands the EU to cancel its highly unethical operations, and go fishing somewhere else. No fishing in Western Sahara should take place until the conflict is solved.
"EU fisheries in Western Sahara must be stopped"
06.11 - 2009




Western Sahara human rights activist Aminatou Haidar hopes for increased attention to the EU plundering of occupied Western Sahara.

READ ALSO

28.07 - 2010
European Voice: Human-rights concerns put fishing deal in danger
25.05 - 2010
IPS: 'EU Subsidises Companies Guilty of Illegal Fishing'
11.04 - 2010
Giant purchases from Morocco/Western Sahara stopped
26.02 - 2010
Portuguese MEPs: Stop EU fisheries
24.02 - 2010
Press release from Green Party, Sweden

The Fish Elsewhere! petition to the European Commission is available in:
  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Arabic
  • Swedish
  • German
  • Portuguese
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Finnish
  • Polish
  • Estonian
  • Romanian
  • Slovenian


  • Do you have any questions, comments or suggestions to the petition? Do not hesitate to send us a mail on contact@wsrw.org.





    Human rights activist Malak Amidane denounces EU fisheries