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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Liberation Of the people of Western Sahara
The French and American corporations, TOTAL Oil and Kosmos Energy, who are now searching for oil in Western Sahara under an agreement with Morocco, should be prevented from doing so by their respective home governments; Canada-based Agricum, a corporation, that recently signed a US$10 million phosphate deal with Morocco’s Office Cherifien des Phosphates to extracted Western Sahara’s phosphate, should invalidate this deal, because it too violates international laws.
The recent decisions by the Norwegian and Swedish state pension funds to divest from corporations operating in Western Sahara should be commended, because the Sahrawi people like other colonized people should be free.
Foreign corporations which now profit from the natural resources of Western Sahara have a crucial role to play. They must first stop their dealing with Moroccan corporations exploiting Sahrawi natural resources – until Morocco removes its 100,000 soldiers currently occupying Western Sahara.
