Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department last met the main opposition parties in Mauritania; and whether slavery and reprisals against anti-slavery human rights defenders in that country were discussed at that meeting.
The UK Head of the British Office Mission in Nouakchott last met with a coalition of Mauritanian opposition parties on Friday 2 December 2016. Human rights, including the issue of slavery, were discussed during the meeting.