Mauritania

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Overview

The Office in Mauritania has a broad mandate through which it can provide technical assistance to all stakeholders and conduct monitoring of human rights violations throughout the country. It has unrestricted access to places of detention. The current thematic priorities focus on non-discrimination, including slavery, the rights of women and girls with a focus on GBV, economic, social and cultural rights and the strengthening of the capacity of the internal security forces, judiciary, government officials, NHRIs and CSOs to address human rights violations.

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News & Statements

Latest news

28 Jun 2024

Special Procedures

Gender backlash underscores urgency to achieve substantive equality for women and girls: UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls

04 Mar 2024

Treaty bodies

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights issues findings on Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Mauritania, Romania, and Sweden

01 Mar 2024

Treaty bodies

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Concludes Seventy-Fifth Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Reports of Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Mauritania, Romania and Sweden

09 Feb 2024

Treaty bodies

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to review Romania, Mauritania, Ireland, Iraq, Indonesia and Sweden

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Latest statements & messages

11 May 2016

Special Procedures

End-of-mission statement on Mauritania, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

08 Sep 2013

Special Procedures

Statement delivered by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

02 Sep 2001

Mauritania: Statement at the Plenaryby H.E. Mr. Dah Ould Abdi,Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation

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Featured Stories

Severe flooding in the Sahel region of Africa © EPA/ALIOU MBAYE
16 November 2022 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

New UN report puts a human face on climate crisis in the Sahel

A new UN Human Rights report shows how in the Sahel, the climate crisis is amplifying vulnerabilities and human rights gaps, often with profound impacts on migration choices and experiences.
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Universal Periodic Review

Core documents for the current and previous cycles

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States. The UPR is a State-driven process, under the auspices of the Human Rights Council, which provides the opportunity for each State to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and to fulfil their human rights obligations.

Special Procedures

Reports

A/HRC/56/51/ADD.1: Visit to Mauritania - Report of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls

A/HRC/54/30/Add.2: Visit to Mauritania

A/HRC/35/26/Add.4: Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to Mauritania

A/HRC/35/26/Add.1: Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to Mauritania

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Special Procedures country visits

Treaty Bodies

Reports

E/C.12/MRT/CO/2: Concluding observations on the second periodic report of Mauritania

CED/C/MRT/CO/1: Concluding observations on the report submitted by Mauritania under article 29 (1) of the Convention

CRPD/C/MRT/CO/1: Concluding observations on the initial report of Mauritania

CEDAW/C/MRT/CO/4: Concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Mauritania

Human Rights Committee: Concluding observations on the second periodic report of Mauritania

Concluding observations on the combined third to fifth periodic reports of Mauritania

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Status & Reporting

Status of Ratifications Reporting Status Standing invitation to Special Procedures Voluntary Pledges and Commitments

External Resources

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights African Court of Justice African Union Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions

Note: OHCHR is not responsible for the content of external links.

Contact Information

Headquarters

Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
Contact in Geneva, Switzerland.

Africa Branch
Tel. +41 22 917 9220

Field

HAUT-COMMISSARIAT AUX DROITS DE L’HOMME
Ilot A Rue Mamadou Konaté,
Villa 640 Tevrag Zeina
BP 4088 NOUAKCHOTT, MAURITANIE

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