Mauritania: Human Rights
(asked on 18th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation in Mauritania.
This question was answered on 26th January 2016
We last assessed the human rights situation in Mauritania in November 2015 before Mauritania's Universal Periodic Review ahead of the UN Human Rights Council. Officials continue to monitor human rights in Mauritania and raise our concerns with the Mauritanian authorities at the highest levels.