IHEU: Mauritania is making little progress on abolishing slavery
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has again crticised Mauritania for its failures to tackle endemic slavery in the…
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IHEU criticizes Mauritania over slavery and the death penalty for homosexuals
The friends of Mauritania, mostly Islamic states, who spoke in an hour-long debate in the Human Rights Council Friday, 18…
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IHEU protests modern slavery in Sudan and Mauritania
In a joint statement with the Association for World Education, IHEU has strongly criticised the continuation of chattel slavery affecting…
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“Writing was my way of fighting against untouchability in Mauritania”: interview with Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir
Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir, an antislavery activist and blogger from Mauritania who spent six years in prison and survived ‘death…
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UPR Statement on Mauritania
International Humanist and Ethical Union 47th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (21 June to 13 July 2021) Item…
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Persecution of human rights defenders in Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia and Nigeria
Oral statement on Item 6: Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders in Africa 67th session of African Commission on Human…
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NGOs call for release of Mauritanian Blogger still detained a year after court quashed his death sentence
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has joined 31 NGOs in calling on Mauritania to release anti-slavery blogger, Mohamed…
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Calling on Mauritania to end the arbitrary detention of Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkheitir
ORAL STATEMENT UN Human Rights Council, 38th Session (18th June – 6th July 2018) General Debate on Item 4: Human…
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Release Blogger and Scrap Death Penalty law! NGOs urge Mauritania at United Nations
Today on the floor of the United Nations Human Rights Council, a group of ten NGOs jointly called on Mauritania…
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NGOs protest as Mauritania creates “mandatory” death sentence for apostasy and blasphemy
The death sentence will be mandatory for “apostasy” and “blasphemy”-related crimes in Mauritania, under a new law passed by the…
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Mauritanian blogger accused of “apostasy” to be released – His immediate safety is paramount
A blogger imprisoned in Mauritania for almost four years, and who at various times was sentenced to death, now looks…
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