Mauritania

• Annual Reports 172
• Chronologies of Events 2
• Concluding Observations 5
• Country News 111
• Country Operations Plans 6
• Country Profiles 2
• Country Reports 29
• Decisions 1
• Maps 9
• Mission Reports 3
• Query Responses 101
• Regional Reports 4
• Sessional Reports 2
• Speeches/Statements 1
• States Parties Reports 8
• Statistics 1
• Thematic Reports 3

• 1969 OAU Convention 1
• Abduction 2
• Access to procedures 3
• Africans 6
• Anti-terrorism law 1
• Arabs 3
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 35
• Armed attacks on camps 1
• Armed forces / Military 8
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 7
• Asylum-seekers 9
• Berber 1
• Border conflict 9
• Border controls 3
• Burden-sharing and international co-operation 1
• Capacity building of state institutions 1
• Catholic 7
• Child labour 22
• Child prostitution 9
• Child soldiers 3
• Children's rights 34
• Children-at-risk 17
• Christian 7
• Civil and political rights 3
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 3
• Contemporary forms of slavery 38
• Convention against Torture (CAT) 1
• Corruption 9
• Coup d'état 11
• Crimes against humanity 5
• Criminal justice 16
• Death in custody 1
• Death penalty 5
• Democracy 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 6
• Disabled persons 4
• Disappeared persons 16
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 33
• Domestic violence 2
• Drug trafficking 6
• Economic, social and cultural rights 19
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 2
• Elections 19
• Equal opportunities 2
• Equality before the law 2
• Exiles 2
• Expulsion 7
• Extradition 2
• Extrajudicial executions 14
• Extreme poverty 3
• Family law 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 12
• Flight by land, air or sea 1
• Forced labour 30
• Forced marriage 9
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 37
• Freedom of assembly and association 34
• Freedom of conscience 7
• Freedom of expression 77
• Freedom of information 30
• Freedom of movement 19
• Freedom of religion 36
• Freedom of speech 31
• Fulani 2
• Gender discrimination 22
• Gender mainstreaming 1
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Genocide 1
• Good governance 8
• HIV and AIDS 2
• Haratin 4
• Harmful traditional practices 6
• Honour killings 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 6
• Human Rights Council 5
• Human rights activists 16
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 32
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights monitors 5
• Humanitarian assistance 11
• IDP camps 1
• Illegal entry 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 3
• Immigration Detention 5
• Impunity 6
• Independence of judiciary 7
• Internal armed conflict 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 11
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 1
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 2
• International armed conflict 2
• International courts and tribunals 4
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
• International protection 3
• Jew 5
• Kewri 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 4
• Livelihoods 1
• Location of camps 4
• Mass exodus 2
• Maternal and child health care 1
• Migrant rights 5
• Migrants 8
• Military operations 1
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 3
• Minorities 17
• Minority rights 1
• Muslim 8
• Non-refoulement 1
• Opposition 4
• Orderly return 1
• Passports 2
• Peace agreements 1
• Peacekeeping 4
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 6
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
• Police 11
• Political parties 4
• Political situation 17
• Polygamy 1
• Pre-trial detention 4
• Prevention of discrimination 1
• Prison or detention conditions 21
• Prosecution vs persecution 1
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 4
• Protection of camps 1
• Protestant 1
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 2
• Public health 6
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 8
• Reconciliation 2
• Referendum 1
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugee camps 5
• Refugee identity documents 5
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
• Refugees 53
• Religious discrimination 19
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 10
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 3
• Residence permits / Residency 1
• Return conditions 2
• Returnees 17
• Right to a nationality 1
• Right to education 12
• Right to employment 9
• Right to family life 3
• Right to food 2
• Right to health 4
• Right to justice 3
• Right to liberty and security 2
• Right to registration at birth 1
• Right to return 2
• Right to self-determination 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 9
• SGBV 22
• Saharawis 1
• Salafi 1
• Sale of children 1
• Sanctions 1
• Secondary movement 1
• Security forces 11
• Security situation 13
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 13
• State protection 2
• Statelessness 1
• Sunni 6
• Temporary protection 1
• Terrorism 25
• Torture 11
• Trafficking in persons 43
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 3
• Travel documents 1
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 1
• Tuareg 3
• UNHCR mandate 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2
• Urban refugees 1
• Voluntary repatriation 14
• Women's rights 31
• Women-at-risk 19
• Work permits 2

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• AlertNet - Mauritania
• Amnesty International - Mauritania
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Mauritania
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Mauritania
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC regional delegation in Tunis
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Mauritania
• Morocco and Maghreb Search Engine and Directory
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Mauritania
• ReliefWeb - Mauritania
• UNHCR - Mauritania
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Mauritania
• United States Department of State - Mauritania
• Women's Learning Partnership - Claiming Equal Citizenship
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Mauritania
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Mauritania