UNMS, Spanish abbreviation for Union Nacional de Mujeres Saharauis ("National Organization of Sahrawi Women", in English) is the women's wing of the Polisario Front. It was created in 1974, and claims to have 10,000 members, divided between the Sahrawi refugee camps, the Liberated territories, the Moroccan-occupied part of Western Sahara and the Sahrawi diaspora (including for instance Spain, Mauritania, France).
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