Mauritania

• Annual Reports 74

• Abduction 1
• Access to procedures 2
• Arabs 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 24
• Armed forces / Military 1
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 6
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-seekers 1
• Berber 1
• Catholic 8
• Child labour 13
• Child prostitution 6
• Child soldiers 1
• Children's rights 19
• Children-at-risk 15
• Christian 11
• Contemporary forms of slavery 12
• Corruption 8
• Coup d'état 1
• Criminal justice 4
• Death penalty 1
• Disappeared persons 15
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 22
• Domestic violence 2
• Drug trafficking 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 13
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 8
• Emigrants 2
• Exiles 2
• Extrajudicial executions 13
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 7
• Forced labour 26
• Forced marriage 10
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 16
• Freedom of assembly and association 24
• Freedom of expression 20
• Freedom of information 6
• Freedom of movement 17
• Freedom of religion 41
• Freedom of speech 16
• Gender discrimination 22
• Gender-based persecution 1
• HIV and AIDS 2
• Haratin 2
• Harmful traditional practices 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 14
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights monitors 4
• Immigration Detention 1
• Impunity 5
• Independence of judiciary 5
• International protection 3
• Jew 9
• Juvenile justice system 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 2
• Migrants 1
• Military operations 1
• Minorities 8
• Muslim 11
• Opposition 1
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 7
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
• Persons with disabilities 5
• Police 9
• Political parties 2
• Pre-trial detention 7
• Prison or detention conditions 11
• Property restitution 2
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
• Protestant 1
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 2
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Refugees 6
• Religious discrimination 25
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 10
• Right to education 2
• Right to registration at birth 2
• Right to self-determination 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 3
• Salafi 1
• Security forces 7
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 15
• Sexual and reproductive rights 2
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 13
• Sunni 10
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 4
• Terrorism 16
• Threats / Intimidation 2
• Torture 6
• Trafficking in persons 38
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Voluntary repatriation 1
• Women's rights 19
• Women-at-risk 13

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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