The High Authority for the press and audio-visual sector ensures application of regulations relating to the media and communications. An independent regulatory authority of the print media and the audio-visual sector, its key missions include guaranteeing respect of laws, regulations and procedures relating to the freedom of information and communication. The role of human rights organizations is taken into consideration in national priorities. The State is therefore carrying out, in cooperation with development partners, programmes aimed at building the capacities of those organizations. These programmes contribute to the development of a human rights culture. Debates in the parliament are open to the public and broadcast by the public media. Political parties and not-for-profit associations may be created and freely carry out their activities provided that democratic principles are complied with and that they do not cause prejudice, due to their purpose or their action, to national sovereignty, integrity, national unity or the republican form of the State. The following measures were adopted for the realization of the right to information: - Conversion of public media (radio and television) institutions into public limited companies; - Establishment of an agency in charge of managing the Mauritanian media support fund; - Issuance of licenses for the establishment of radio and television stations. The full realization of these rights is dependent on the availability of financial resources. Chapter 4: Economic and social rights Paragraph 1: The right to property The right to property is guaranteed in the Constitution. Expropriation can only be carried out for public interest with fair and prior compensation. The Department of Housing, Urban Planning and Land Development implemented the following actions: - Subsidization of over 6,000 units for the most disadvantaged populations; - Construction of hundreds of housing units in Zouératt and Nouadhibou (Tarhil) for civil servants; - Acquisition and servicing of land for housing of the most disadvantaged populations; - Implementation of a programme to modernize towns and upgrade poor districts, consisting of the sub-division of land in poor districts (GAZRA) with a view to 36