Mauritania

• Annual Reports 234
• Chronologies of Events 2
• Commentaries 1
• Compilations 3
• Concluding Observations 8
• Country News 208
• Country Operations Plans 6
• Country Profiles 7
• Country Reports 50
• Decisions 1
• Maps 16
• Mission Reports 8
• Query Responses 111
• Regional Reports 21
• Sessional Reports 5
• Speeches/Statements 3
• States Parties Reports 13
• Statistics 1
• Thematic Reports 5
• UNHCR Country Updates 40

• 1969 OAU Convention 1
• Abduction 6
• Access to procedures 5
• Access to water 3
• Adoption 1
• Africans 7
• Albinism/Persons with Albinism 3
• Anti-terrorism law 2
• Arabs 4
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 50
• Armed attacks on camps 1
• Armed forces / Military 11
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 18
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-migration nexus 4
• Asylum-seekers 28
• Berber 2
• Border conflict 15
• Border controls 3
• Border crossers 1
• Burden-sharing and international co-operation 6
• Capacity building of state institutions 1
• Catholic 9
• Ceasefire 4
• Child labour 35
• Child prostitution 13
• Child soldiers 5
• Children's rights 48
• Children-at-risk 28
• Christian 12
• Citizenship / Nationality law 2
• Civil and political rights 9
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 4
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 6
• Contemporary forms of slavery 71
• Convention against Torture (CAT) 4
• Corruption 16
• Coup d'état 13
• Crimes against humanity 5
• Criminal justice 16
• Death in custody 1
• Death penalty 23
• Democracy 4
• Deportation / Forcible return 6
• Disappeared persons 20
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 43
• Domestic violence 4
• Drug trafficking 9
• Economic, social and cultural rights 21
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 2
• Elections 37
• Emigrants 2
• Equal opportunities 2
• Equality before the law 2
• Exiles 4
• Expulsion 7
• Extradition 3
• Extrajudicial executions 17
• Extreme poverty 7
• Family law 1
• Family reunification 2
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 23
• Flight by land, air or sea 1
• Forced labour 36
• Forced marriage 20
• Forced relocation 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 47
• Freedom of assembly and association 60
• Freedom of conscience 9
• Freedom of expression 120
• Freedom of information 59
• Freedom of movement 22
• Freedom of religion 57
• Freedom of speech 40
• Fulani 3
• Gang related violence 1
• Gender discrimination 27
• Gender mainstreaming 3
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Genocide 1
• Good governance 14
• Good offices 1
• HIV and AIDS 4
• Haratin 13
• Harmful traditional practices 15
• Honour killings 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 9
• Human Rights Council 12
• Human rights activists 38
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 42
• Human rights courts 2
• Human rights monitors 7
• Humanitarian assistance 48
• Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 1
• IDP camps 1
• Illegal entry 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 3
• Immigration Detention 6
• Impunity 9
• Independence of judiciary 9
• Indigenous persons 2
• Integration 4
• Internal armed conflict 5
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 23
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 3
• International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers (ICRMW) 2
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 4
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 3
• International armed conflict 3
• International courts and tribunals 4
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 3
• International protection 4
• Jew 10
• Juvenile justice system 2
• Kewri 2
• Kurd 2
• Laws relating to religion 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 8
• Livelihoods 3
• Location of camps 8
• Mass exodus 2
• Maternal and child health care 1
• Migrant rights 9
• Migrants 15
• Military operations 5
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 5
• Minorities 26
• Minority rights 6
• Muslim 17
• Non-refoulement 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 7
• Opposition 15
• Orderly return 1
• Palestinian 1
• Passports 2
• Peace agreements 5
• Peace process 1
• Peacekeeping 17
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 3
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 14
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 11
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
• Persons with disabilities 6
• Piracy 1
• Police 18
• Political parties 7
• Political situation 32
• Polygamy 1
• Pre-trial detention 8
• Prevention of discrimination 3
• Prison or detention conditions 30
• Property restitution 3
• Prosecution vs persecution 1
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
• Protection of camps 1
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1
• Protestant 1
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 9
• Public health 6
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 9
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 2
• Reconciliation 3
• Referendum 5
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 2
• Refugee camps 12
• Refugee identity documents 5
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 3
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 2
• Refugees 122
• Registration 1
• Religious discrimination 26
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 15
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 3
• Resettlement 2
• Residence permits / Residency 1
• Return conditions 3
• Returnees 36
• Right to a nationality 1
• Right to education 19
• Right to employment 9
• Right to family life 3
• Right to food 7
• Right to health 4
• Right to justice 3
• Right to liberty and security 4
• Right to registration at birth 4
• Right to return 2
• Right to self-determination 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 19
• Saharawis 2
• Salafi 3
• Sale of children 1
• Sanctions 1
• Secondary movement 2
• Security forces 15
• Security situation 30
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 31
• Sexual and reproductive rights 2
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 14
• State protection 6
• Statelessness 11
• Statelessness Determination Procedures 2
• Sunni 10
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 10
• Temporary protection 1
• Terrorism 61
• Threats / Intimidation 4
• Torture 29
• Trafficking in persons 56
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 3
• Travel documents 3
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 1
• Tuareg 4
• UNHCR mandate 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 5
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 9
• Urban refugees 7
• Visas 1
• Voluntary repatriation 27
• Women's rights 44
• Women-at-risk 30
• 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