Mauritania

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Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' report

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)

Report of the Working Group on arbitrary detention - Mission to Mauritania (A/HRC/10/21/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance - Preliminary note on the mission to Mauritania (A/HRC/7/19/Add.6)

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Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2013)

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2012)

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2009)

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2004) 

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On 22 September 2009, an Agreement was signed between OHCHR and the Government of Mauritania to establish the OHCHR Country Office in Nouakchott. On 9 December 2010, the Office was officially inaugurated. Since its establishment, the Office has undertaken a large number of activities in the areas of monitoring the human rights situation, offering technical assistance to the Government, promoting human rights mainly in the fight against slavery, and following up on the reform of the justice system. The Office is staffed with three internationals and four nationals. The High Commissioner visited Mauritania from 26 to 29 April 2011 to underscore the relevance of the Office’s establishment and the seriousness with which the Office intends to address the thematic priorities in Mauritania.
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