Latest Mauritania News

Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Applaud Qatar’s Memorial for Enslaved Africans, Raise Questions on Mandatory HIV Testing…
Statement following the Thirty-eighth Meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee for Polio
Human Rights Committee Adopts Annual Report
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Concludes Seventy-Fifth Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Reports of Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Mauritania, Romania and Sweden
Experts of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Commend Mauritania for Linking the Minimum Wage to Collective Bargaining, Ask about…
Experts of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Commend Romania’s Competent Delegation, Ask about Corruption and the Employment of Roma
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Opens Seventy-Fifth Session
UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to review Romania, Mauritania, Ireland, Iraq, Indonesia and Sweden
Reasonable Grounds to Believe Sudanese, Opposition Forces Committing Atrocity Crimes in Darfur, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Tells Security Council
Amid Continuing Rights Violations in Gaza, Security Council Must Do More to Enforce International Law, Its Own Resolutions, Speakers Stress as Open Debate Concludes
Reconfigured Regional Coordination Mechanism Key to Quell Widespread Insecurity, Avert More Coups in West Africa, Sahel, Special Representative Tells Security Council
Statement following the Thirty-seventh Meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee for Polio
Security Council Extends UN Mission for Referendum in Western Sahara by One Year, with Two Members Abstaining on Resolution
Statement of the Thirty-sixth Meeting of the Polio IHR Emergency Committee
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Opens Twenty-Ninth Session
Human Rights Committee Concludes One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Reports of Brazil, Burundi, Colombia, Cyprus, Lesotho, State…
West Africa, Sahel Requires Tangible, Long-Term Support to Eliminate Terrorism, Address Humanitarian Crisis, Special Representative Tells Security Council
Human Rights Council Adopts Universal Periodic Review Outcomes of Republic of Korea, Switzerland and Zambia
Human Rights Council Adopts Universal Periodic Review Outcomes of Peru, Guatemala and Benin
Human Rights Council Adopts Universal Periodic Review Outcomes of Czech Republic, Argentina, Gabon and Ghana
Small Island Developing States, Least Developed Countries and Landlocked Developing Countries issue call for action to accelerate agrifood systems transformation and collectively build resilience
Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls Calls for a Feminist Human Rights-Based Economy to Tackle the Disproportionate Representation of Women…
Security Council: Sahel
Human Rights Council Discusses the Situation of Children in the Central African Republic and Strengthening Institutional Capacities in South Sudan
Human Rights Council Hears that the Security Situation in Mali is Very Concerning, and that Severe Violations of Human Rights Have Become…
No Country Can Claim to be Free of Racism and More Needs to be Done to Combat Systemic Racism and Discrimination that…
Human Rights Council Concludes General Debate on the Human Rights Situation in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories, and Begins General Debate…
Human Rights Council Adopts Universal Periodic Review Outcome of Bahrain
UNHCR: Islamic giving plays increasing role in helping the forcibly displaced
IATA and Afroport Mauritanie Sign Agreement on Ground Handling Safety
Conflict and Violence are the Primary Causes of Hunger and Famine, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Tells the Human Rights Council
Human Rights Council Marks International Women’s Day, Hearing the High Commissioner Say that Women’s Equality is Central to All Human Rights
The Human Rights Situation in Nicaragua Continues to Erode, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Tells the Human Rights Council
Human Rights Council Holds High-level Meeting Commemorating the Thirty-fifth Anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development
Human Rights Council Holds High-level Panel Discussion on the Voluntary Funds for the Universal Periodic Review, including Achievements and Optimised Support to…
Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Commend Mauritania on Advances made in Education for Women, Ask about…
Non-governmental Organizations Brief the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the Situation of Women’s Rights in Bahrain, Mauritania and Costa Rica
Civil Society Organizations Brief the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the Situation of Women in Hungary, Georgia, Norway and Tunisia
Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women Opens Eighty-Fourth Session
Humanitarian needs to deepen in dozens of conflict zones as world’s attention wanes
Human Rights Council Establishes Fact-finding Mission to Investigate Alleged Human Rights Violations
UN warns of worsening conflict and displacement in Sahel without immediate climate action
Film makes space for satellites in global climate conversations at COP27
Advancing rights-based approach to climate change resilience and migration in Sahel
Dracunculiasis eradication: strong cross-border collaboration towards certification of Sudan in 2023
Tunisia’s human rights record to be examined by Universal Periodic Review
Statement of Thirty-third Polio IHR Emergency Committee
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