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Mauritania

Status of Ratifications
Reporting Status
Standing invitation to Special Procedures
(No invitation extended)
Voluntary Pledges and Commitments

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Mauritania and UN Charter-based Bodies

Mauritania and UN Treaty Bodies

Universal Periodic Review

Core documents for the current and previous cycles

Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' report

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights - Mission to Mauritania (A/HRC/35/26/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment - Mission to Mauritania (A/HRC/34/54/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery - Mission to Mauritania (A/HRC/27/53/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences - Mission to Mauritania (A/HRC/15/20/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination - Mission to Mauritania (A/HRC/11/36/Add.2)

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Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2019) CCPR/C/MRT/CO/2

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2018) CRC/C/MRT/CO/3-5

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2018) CAT/C/MRT/CO/2

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2018) CERD/C/MRT/CO/8-14

Committee on Migrant Workers
Concluding observations (2016) CMW/C/MRT/CO/1

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2014) CEDAW/C/MRT/CO/2-3

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2012) E/C.12/MRT/CO/1

>>Full list of documents in the Treaty Body Database

OHCHR in Mauritania

The Office in Mauritania has a broad mandate through which it can provide technical assistance to all stakeholders and conduct monitoring of human rights violations throughout the country. It has unrestricted access to places of detention. The current thematic priorities focus on non-discrimination, including slavery, the rights of women and girls with a focus on GBV, economic, social and cultural rights and the strengthening of the capacity of the internal security forces, judiciary, government officials, NHRIs and CSOs to address human rights violations. Read more about OHCHR in Mauritania.

Contact Information

Headquarters

Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
Contact in Geneva, Switzerland.

Africa Branch
Tel. + 41 22 928 9360

Field

HAUT-COMMISSARIAT AUX DROITS DE L’HOMME
Ilot A Rue Mamadou Konaté,
Villa 640 Tevrag Zeina
BP 4088 NOUAKCHOTT, MAURITANIE