Mauritania

• Amnesty International 27
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 17
• Freedom House 37
• Human Rights Watch 4
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 7
• International Federation for Human Rights 10
• International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) 2
• International Trade Union Confederation 10
• Minority Rights Group International 7
• Reporters Without Borders 5
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 2
• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 13
• United States Department of Labor 17
• United States Department of State 74

• Abduction 1
• Access to procedures 3
• Access to water 2
• Africans 2
• Albinism/Persons with Albinism 1
• Arabs 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 30
• Armed forces / Military 3
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 7
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-seekers 8
• Berber 2
• Border controls 3
• Catholic 9
• Child labour 32
• Child prostitution 13
• Child soldiers 4
• Children's rights 36
• Children-at-risk 15
• Christian 11
• Civil and political rights 1
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 1
• Contemporary forms of slavery 40
• Corruption 12
• Coup d'état 2
• Criminal justice 11
• Death in custody 1
• Death penalty 10
• Democracy 3
• Deportation / Forcible return 3
• Disappeared persons 19
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 27
• Domestic violence 2
• Drug trafficking 2
• Economic, social and cultural rights 13
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 19
• Emigrants 2
• Equality before the law 2
• Exiles 3
• Expulsion 3
• Extradition 1
• Extrajudicial executions 13
• Extreme poverty 4
• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 9
• Flight by land, air or sea 1
• Forced labour 35
• Forced marriage 11
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 30
• Freedom of assembly and association 46
• Freedom of conscience 8
• Freedom of expression 71
• Freedom of information 25
• Freedom of movement 21
• Freedom of religion 48
• Freedom of speech 16
• Gender discrimination 24
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Good governance 4
• HIV and AIDS 2
• Haratin 8
• Harmful traditional practices 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 5
• Human rights activists 16
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 25
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights monitors 6
• Humanitarian assistance 2
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
• Immigration Detention 4
• Impunity 6
• Independence of judiciary 8
• Indigenous persons 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• International protection 3
• Jew 10
• Juvenile justice system 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 5
• Migrant rights 6
• Migrants 7
• Military operations 1
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 3
• Minorities 15
• Minority rights 2
• Muslim 11
• Opposition 3
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 9
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 7
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
• Persons with disabilities 5
• Police 14
• Political parties 3
• Pre-trial detention 8
• Prevention of discrimination 1
• Prison or detention conditions 22
• Property restitution 2
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
• Protestant 1
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 4
• 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 21
• Religious discrimination 25
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 10
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 3
• Residence permits / Residency 1
• Right to education 9
• Right to employment 6
• Right to health 3
• Right to justice 2
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Right to registration at birth 2
• Right to self-determination 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 9
• Saharawis 1
• Salafi 1
• Sanctions 1
• Security forces 9
• Security situation 2
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 15
• Sexual and reproductive rights 2
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 13
• State protection 1
• Sunni 10
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 4
• Terrorism 23
• Threats / Intimidation 4
• Torture 18
• Trafficking in persons 46
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Travel documents 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Urban refugees 1
• Voluntary repatriation 7
• Women's rights 23
• 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