UN rejects rights mandate for Western Sahara mission

April 29, 2014 22:34

The UN Security Council today approved a resolution calling for greater efforts to improve human rights in Western Sahara, but stopped short of widening the mandate of its peacekeeping mission.

The north African territory is controlled by Morocco and claimed by Polisario Front separatists backed by Algeria. Rights groups had pressed the United Nations to task the peacekeepers of the UN Mission in the Western Sahara, MINURSO, with human rights monitoring -- a move fiercely opposed by Morocco.

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