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Demonstration in front of Human Rights Council in Geneva to demand expanding prerogatives of MINURSO

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Geneva (Switzerland), March 23, 2014 (SPS) -  The Coordination Committee of the Sahrawi Community in Europe organized Friday a demonstration, in collaboration with the Polisario Front representation in Switzerland and the Committee of Friendship with the Saharawi people, in front of the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, to demand expanding the prerogatives of MINURSO to include human rights monitoring in the occupied Western Sahara. 
 
During  the demonstration, marked by a massive presence of the Sahrawi diaspora besides supporters of Sahrawi cause and a delegation of human rights activists from  the occupied territories as well as the refugee camps, slogans were chanted demanding a UN mechanism to protect and monitor human rights in the Western sahara. (SPS)
 
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