Mauritania
Content featuring Mauritania
The Dakar Call to Action
The Dakar Call to Action was adopted at the West & Central Africa High-Level Meeting in Dakar from 23-25 October 2017. It calls on governments to address child marriage.
Child marriage in West & Central Africa
This brief provides an overview of child marriage in West and Central Africa and includes recommendations on how to address it.
Girls' education and child marriage in West and Central Africa
The report documents girls’ educational attainment and child marriage in the region, factors that lead girls to marry or leave school early, and the impact on development.
Tostan's community empowerment programme
This case study looks at Tostan's community empowerment programme, a 30-month participant-centred human rights education programme which tackles harmful traditional practices.
Data sources
- Equality Now, Protecting the girl child. Using the law to end child, early and forced marriage and related human rights violations, 2014, https://www.equalitynow.org/sites/default/files/Protecting_the_Girl_Child.pdf (accessed March 2020).
- Global Partnership for Education, Mauritania, [website], https://www.globalpartnership.org/where-we-work/mauritania (accessed March 2020).
- Government of Mauritania, MAURITANIE, Enquête par grappes à indicateurs multiples, 2015, 2017, https://mics-surveys-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/MICS5/West%20and%20Central%20Africa/Mauritania/2015/Final/Mauritania%202015%20MICS_French.pdf (accessed March 2020).
- Loi N°2001-052 Du 19 Juillet 2001 Portant Code Du Statut Personnel, http://www.droit-afrique.com/upload/doc/mauritanie/Mauritanie-Code-2001-statut-personnel.pdf (accessed March 2020).
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Joint statement on child, early and forced marriage, HRC 27, Agenda Item 3, [website], 2014, http://fngeneve.um.dk/en/aboutus/statements/newsdisplaypage/?newsid=6371ad93-8fb0-4c35-b186-820fa996d379 (accessed March 2020).
- Musawah, Mauritania: Overview of Muslim Family Laws & Practices, 2017, https://www.musawah.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Mauritania-Overview-Table.pdf (accessed March 2020).
- Realisez Votre Potentiel de Developpement (SWEDD), Mauritanie, [website], http://www.projetswedd.org/country/mauritanie/ (accessed March 2020).
- République Islamique de Mauritanie, Revue Nationale Volontaire des Objectifs de Développement Durable, 2019, p.38 and 39, https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/23447Mauritania_REVISED_AS_OF_24JUNERevueNationalVolontaire_Mauritanie2_medium.pdf (accessed March 2020).
- The Guardian, The unspeakable truth about slavery in Mauritania, [website], 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/08/the-unspeakable-truth-about-slavery-in-mauritania (accessed March 2020).
- Thomas Reuters Foundation, Mauritania must ban deadly force feeding of child brides – activists, [website], 2014, http://news.trust.org//item/20140117185616-fl4hq (accessed March 2020).
- Tostan, UNICEF video highlights the movement to abandon female genital cutting in Mauritania, [website], 2013, https://www.tostan.org/unicef-video-highlights-movement-abandon-female-genital-cutting-mauritania/ (accessed March 2020).
- UN CEDAW, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Mauritania, 2014, p.13, http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW/C/MRT/CO/2-3&Lang=En (accessed March 2020).
- UN Child Rights Committee, Concluding observations on the combined third to fifth periodic reports of Mauritania, 2018, p. 2, 4, 5, 6, https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CRC%2fC%2fMRT%2fCO%2f3-5&Lang=en (accessed March 2020).
- UN General Assembly, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, Mauritania, 2015, p.16, https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/MRindex.aspx (accessed March 2020).
- UNFPA, In Mauritania, imams take to radio waves to say child marriage is against Islam, [website], 2019, https://www.unfpa.org/news/mauritania-imams-take-radio-waves-say-child-marriage-against-islam# (accessed March 2020).
- UNICEF DATA, Female genital mutilation (FGM), February 2020, https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/female-genital-mutilation/ (accessed March 2020).
- UNICEF global databases 2020, based on Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), and other national surveys. Population data from United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019). World Population Prospects 2019, Online Edition. Rev. 1.
- United Nations, Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform, [website], 2017, https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg5 (accessed March 2020).
- Women’s UN Report Network, “Forced fattening” practice of Leblouh, 2009, https://wunrn.com/2009/02/mauritania-young-reject-forced-fattening-practice-of-leblouh/ (accessed March 2020).