Mauritania

• Amnesty International 24
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 14
• Freedom House 32
• Human Rights Watch 4
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 5
• International Federation for Human Rights 10
• International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) 1
• International Trade Union Confederation 9
• Minority Rights Group International 6
• Reporters Without Borders 5
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 2
• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 13
• United States Department of Labor 14
• United States Department of State 60

• Abduction 1
• Access to procedures 2
• Access to water 1
• Africans 1
• Albinism/Persons with Albinism 1
• Arabs 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 28
• Armed forces / Military 3
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 4
• Asylum-seekers 8
• Berber 2
• Border controls 3
• Catholic 9
• Child labour 26
• Child prostitution 11
• Child soldiers 3
• Children's rights 31
• Children-at-risk 13
• Christian 9
• Civil and political rights 1
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 1
• Contemporary forms of slavery 31
• Corruption 10
• Coup d'état 2
• Criminal justice 11
• Death in custody 1
• Death penalty 6
• Democracy 2
• Deportation / Forcible return 3
• Disappeared persons 18
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 24
• Drug trafficking 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 13
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 15
• Equality before the law 2
• Exiles 1
• Expulsion 3
• Extradition 1
• Extrajudicial executions 13
• Extreme poverty 3
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 7
• Flight by land, air or sea 1
• Forced labour 32
• Forced marriage 8
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 29
• Freedom of assembly and association 39
• Freedom of conscience 8
• Freedom of expression 60
• Freedom of information 17
• Freedom of movement 19
• Freedom of religion 42
• Freedom of speech 16
• Gender discrimination 22
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Good governance 4
• HIV and AIDS 1
• Haratin 4
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 4
• Human rights activists 13
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 25
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights monitors 4
• Humanitarian assistance 2
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
• Immigration Detention 4
• Impunity 5
• Independence of judiciary 8
• Indigenous persons 1
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
• International protection 2
• Jew 7
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 3
• Migrant rights 5
• Migrants 6
• Military operations 1
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 3
• Minorities 13
• Minority rights 2
• Muslim 9
• Opposition 3
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 7
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
• Persons with disabilities 3
• Police 12
• Political parties 1
• Pre-trial detention 6
• Prison or detention conditions 19
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 7
• Protestant 1
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 2
• Public health 3
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Reconciliation 2
• Refugee camps 1
• Refugee identity documents 5
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
• Refugees 17
• Religious discrimination 22
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 10
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 3
• Residence permits / Residency 1
• Right to education 7
• Right to employment 6
• Right to health 3
• Right to justice 2
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Right to self-determination 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 6
• SGBV 13
• Saharawis 1
• Salafi 1
• Sanctions 1
• Security forces 7
• Security situation 2
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 13
• Sunni 8
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
• Terrorism 17
• Threats / Intimidation 2
• Torture 13
• Trafficking in persons 42
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Travel documents 1
• Urban refugees 1
• Voluntary repatriation 6
• Women's rights 21
• Women-at-risk 13
• Work permits 2

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• 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
• 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