Mauritania
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Mauritania: Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review
(A/HRC/16/17)
07/04/2011
The Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, established in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 5/1, held its ninth session from 1 to 12 November 2010. The review of Mauritania was held at the 16th meeting, on 10 November 2010. The delegation of Mauritania was headed by Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Khattra Commissioner for Human Rights, Humanitarian Action and relations with civil society.
Following that session, the working group produced a full report.
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Mauritania at the UPR of November 2010
27/10/2010
Mauritania as Liberia will present the human rights records in his country during the 9th session of the Working Group of November , 2010. Mauritania will be the last country to be reviewed during this session on the 10th November unlike Liberia which is to undergo first the review during the same session. The troika is composed of Hungary, Guatemala and Mauritius. Mauritania is currently Membership of the Human Rights Council.
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PRESS RELEASE
MDH / AFCF / SOS Esclaves: Series of deaths in prisons in Mauritania.
Published 10/21/2010
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Declaration of FONADH following the unfair dismissal of
the adviser of the National Commission of Human Rights in Mauritania.
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Published 04/14/2010
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| History |
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, by Senegal on the southwest, by Mali on the east and southeast, by Algeria on the northeast, and by the Morocco-controlled Western Sahara on the northwest. It is named after the Roman province of Mauretania, even though the modern state covers a territory far to the south-west of the old province. The capital and largest city is Nouakchott, located on the Atlantic coast. Its size is almost 1,030,700 km² with an estimated population of about 3,364,940 million in july 2008.
The civilian government of Mauritania was overthrown on 6 August 2008, in a military coup d'état led by General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. On April 16, 2009, General Aziz resigned from the military to run for president in the July 19 elections; which he won. In Mauritania about 20% of the population live on less than US $1.25 per day.
Based on commitments made by the new regime, member of WAHRDN, FONADH (National Forum of Human Rights) undertakes to assist national authorities in this program. This entails strengthening capacity of defenders of the country which, despite their militancy have little knowledge of standards and safeguards human rights, the technics of lobbying for the ratification of regional legal instruments and the universal human rights. Mauritania is a country that has still not ratified certain agreements.
The FONADDH binds so as Priority:
* Increased knowledge and expertise of human rights defenders in promoting, protecting and defending human rights, establishment of mechanisms to support victims for their reintegration and national reconciliation.
* Strengthening institutional capacity of organizations working on the issue of slavery, trafficking and child trafficking, trafficking of women and girls.
* Training of human rights defenders standards and safeguards for minorities with special emphasis on language issues.
* A plea for the settlement of liabilities inherited from the humanitarian regime of Ould tayyah and the return of people evicted.
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