{"id":15870,"date":"2020-03-16T01:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T16:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/16\/west-saharan-group-takes-new-zealand-superannuation-fund-to-court-over-blood-phosphate"},"modified":"2020-03-16T01:30:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T16:30:02","slug":"west-saharan-group-takes-new-zealand-superannuation-fund-to-court-over-blood-phosphate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15870","title":{"rendered":"West Saharan group takes New Zealand superannuation fund to court over &#8216;blood phosphate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independence movement lodges documents in high court arguing $45bn fund invests in illegally mined fertiliser<\/p>\n<p>The Western Sahara liberation movement has taken New Zealand\u2019s superannuation fund to the country\u2019s highest court over its investments in farms that use phosphate illegally mined in the occupied territory.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand is one of the few remaining countries \u2013 and last western nation \u2013 that accepts imports from the contested territory in West Africa, forcibly occupied by Morocco since 1975. Morocco\u2019s claims to the territory are largely unrecognised internationally.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/16\/west-saharan-group-takes-new-zealand-superannuation-fund-to-court-over-blood-phosphate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independence movement lodges documents in high court arguing $45bn fund invests in illegally mined fertiliserThe Western Sahara liberation movement has taken New Zealand\u2019s superannuation fund to the country\u2019s highest court over its investments in farms&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,41,6,212,1240,56,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-morocco","category-new-zealand","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15871,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870\/revisions\/15871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}