over 2000 Sites (major public areas, main roads and motorways, pedestrian walkways), 300 Intelligent Traffic Surveillance (ITS) Cameras over 75 Sites and some 2000 handheld radio sets for the police force. The project is being implemented. Moreover, cameras have been installed I n 78 police stations. 402. Although Mauritius has not signed the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol Convention, it does however attempt to treat applications for refugee status or political asylum on a humanitarian, case to-case basis by facilitating their settlement in a friendly country willing to receive them. Further it has not ratified the OAU Refugee Convention. Nevertheless, Mauritius, with the assistance, of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has facilitated the resettlement of 11 asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of Congo detained in Mauritius. 403. The Mutual Assistance in Criminal and Related Matters Act provides the framework for international cooperation between Mauritius and foreign states in investigations, prosecutions or proceedings concerning serious offences and related civil matters. Notably, it governs procedures for assistance in evidence-gathering, transfer of detained persons to and from Mauritius, foreign requests for restraining orders, foreign requests for enforcement of foreign restraining order or confiscation and foreign requests for the location of the proceeds of crime. 404. The Prevention of Terrorism Act was amended in 2016 to provide for the reinforcement of the legal framework against terrorism, and for related matters. The Constitution was amended in November 2016 to provide for the imposition of restrictions on (a) the movement within Mauritius and (b) the right of any person to leave Mauritius, pursuant to an order of a Court or a Judge of the Supreme Court under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Section 15 of the Constitution providing for the freedom of movement, was amended in 2016, to provide for the imposition of restrictions on the movement within Mauritius or on the right of any person to leave Mauritius pursuant to an order of a Court or a Judge of the Supreme Court under such law, being a law relating to offences or acts of terrorism. 405. Section 206 (Outrage against public and religious morality) and section 282 (Stirring up racial discrimination) of the Criminal Code Act were amended in 2018. Radio communication, and technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical and electromagnetic capabilities, and writing in different forms including writing by electronic means, communication in the form of speed or other sound have now been captured. ARTICLE 24- RIGHT TO SATISFACTORY ENVIRONMENT All peoples shall have the right to a general satisfactory environment favorable to their development. 141

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