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With a July 2012 estimated population of 3.4 million, [2] Mauritania is a highly centralized Islamic Republic with no legal provisions for freedom of religion. Coming from French colonial rule, Mauritania was ethnically divided between Arabic speaking tribal confederations of the north and sedentary black populations of the south, many of whom were traditionally bonded communities or enslaved ...
Demonstrators outside parliament in Nouakchott on 18 March 2011.. Following the example of Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian fruit vendor who set himself on fire the previous month to protest the government of Tunisia, a middle-aged businessman named Yacoub Ould Dahoud burned himself in front of the Presidential Palace in Nouakchott on January 17, 2011.
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For 18 years after independence, Mauritania was a one-party state under Moktar Ould Daddah. This was followed by decades of military rule. The first fully democratic presidential election in Mauritania occurred on 11 March 2007, which marked a transfer from military to civilian rule following the military coup in 2005.
He was jailed numerous times, and won plaudits from the United Nations and United States for his fight against slavery in Mauritania. He was the runner-up in 2014 and 2019 elections, securing ...
The movement has also published a list of 28 grievances, including both political and economic problems. [1] The group's demands include; the removal of the military from Mauritanian politics, the elimination of institutional racism, better rights for women, reformation of the country's education system, an end to the endemic corruption within government, the strengthening of Mauritanian civil ...
Mauritania ratified in 1961 the Forced Labour Convention, having already enshrined abolition of slavery, albeit implicitly, in its 1959 constitution. [1] In 1981, Mauritania became the last country in the world to officially abolish slavery, [4] when a presidential decree abolished the practice. However, no criminal laws were passed to enforce ...
In 2009 Human trafficking in Mauritania was considered to be a controversial human rights issue. Mauritania was a suspected source and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to trafficking in persons , specifically conditions of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation .