AFRICAN UNION
UNION AFRICAINE
UNIÃO AFRICANA
African Commission on Human &
Peoples’ Rights
Commission Africaine des Droits de
l’Homme & des Peuples
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23rd Ordinary Session
From 12 to 22 February, 2018
Banjul, Gambia
Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the Periodic and Combined
Report of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania on the Implementation of the African
Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (2006 – 2014) and the Initial Report on the
Maputo Protocol
I.
Introduction
1. The Islamic Republic of Mauritania is a State Party to the African Charter on Human
and Peoples’ Rights (the African Charter), which it ratified on 26 June, 1986.
2. The Islamic Republic of Mauritania presented its Combined Periodic Reports (10th,
11th, 12th, 13th and 14th), in accordance with Article 62 of the African Charter and the
Initial Report under Article 26 of the Maputo Protocol at the 60th Ordinary Session of
the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Commission), held from
8 to 22 May, 2017 in Niamey, Niger.
3. The Report was presented by the Delegation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
(the Delegation), led by His Excellency Mr. Cheikh Tourad Ould Abdel MALICK,
Commissioner for Human Rights and Humanitarian Action.
4. The delegation was made up of the following personalities:
- Mr Mohamed Lemine Ould Aboye Ould Cheikh Hadrami, Ambassador of
the Islamic Republic of Mauritania to Niger,
- Mr Isselmou Ould Meinouh, Adviser to the Prime Minister and Chairperson
of the State’s Report Drafting Committee in respect of treaty bodies and the
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights,
- Mr Hamada ould Meimou, Director- General of the Ministry of the Interior
and Decentralization,
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