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Norwatch is an independent news service that conducts critical journalistic investigation on Norwegian businesses in developing countries. Read more about Norwatch here . See Norwatch-reports in English here .

mandag 23. august 2010 11:46
Last year, Norwatch revealed that the Norwegian government pension fund had invested Africa Israel Investments and in its subsidiary Danya Cebus Ltd, which build settlement on occupied West Bank. Today, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance announced that the Pension Fund has divested from both firms, as well as a Malaysian forest company.

onsdag 23. juni 2010 12:17
International media has today covered a vessel that has been apprehended in Cyprus, for alleged arms transport to Sudan. The ship left Norway few weeks before, the story goes. From what Norwatch can establish, no arms from Norway were part of the shipment.

fredag 11. juni 2010 17:08
The Norwegian wine and spirit monopoly, Vinmonopolet, has increased its selection of wine from the Israel-occupied Golan Heights. Once again the wine is incorrectly labelled as “Israeli”.

tirsdag 01. juni 2010 21:44
Norwegian investor KLP has blacklisted another two new fertiliser companies that buy phosphate from occupied Western Sahara. Furthermore, two additional corporations were dropped from its portfolio because they are linked with nuclear weapons production.

mandag 10. mai 2010 15:15
Kongsberg Seatex had hoped to sell an ocean surveillance system to the Moroccan navy but chose to refrain because of the Western Sahara conflict. “We could not be absolutely sure that it would not be placed in Western Sahara,” Even Aas, Executive Vice President, Public Affairs, told Norwatch.

onsdag 05. mai 2010 08:48
“Neither Seadrill nor other Norwegian companies should contribute to financing a military dictatorship,” the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Norwatch.

onsdag 14. april 2010 11:05
Norwegian fish oil importer GC Rieber today announced that they have stopped all imports of fish oil from Morocco and occupied Western Sahara. After their biggest customer did not longer want to buy the controversial oil, the importer has chosen to stop further purchases from the region.

tirsdag 16. mars 2010 14:08
A Norwegian study refutes extreme levels of heavy metals from the AngloGold Ashanti gold mine in Tanzania. But the discovery of poisonous arsenic gives rise to concern and may indicate local emissions.

tirsdag 16. mars 2010 13:56
The gold mine company AngloGold Ashanti found nothing when it looked for pollution around the mine in north Tanzania. A Norwegian researcher believes it looked the wrong way.

fredag 12. mars 2010 12:33
The investments by the Norwegian Government Pension Fund – Global in companies in occupied Palestinian areas have increased from 12.7 to 18.1 billion Norwegian kroner in 1 year. Investments in involved Israeli firms alone have increased by 1 billion, from 771 million to 1.7 billion kroner.

tirsdag 23. februar 2010 15:35
Fertilizer giant Yara has sold the disputed phosphate project in protexted Atlantic rainforest in Brazil, which Norwatch visited last year.

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