Mauritania
Human Right promotion
Partners: ELCA and the Lutheran World Federation Deaptment for World Service

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) is assisting the Mauritanian government to set up a national action plan for human rights. To assist this, the LWF Department for World Service is providing a staff person to liaise between the government commission, the UN and other international agencies.

Human rights is a very sensitive issue in Mauritania. The international stature of the LWF, which has been in Mauritania for many years now in offering sustainable participatory development, has helped make possible seminars and workshops, supervision of international experts, and participation in coordination meetings.

Several human rights issues have been the object of workshops: economic and social rights; civil, political and cultural rights; human rights’ education; women, children and vulnerable groups’ rights.

Once the Mauritanian government has officially adopted a human rights protection and promotion intervention framework, LWF, which supports and accompanies the entire process, will be in a good position to integrate more formally into its program a fully elaborated and operational human rights-based human development approach to other programs in the country.

Objectives:

• To contribute to the promotion of the culture of human rights in Mauritania through capacity building in this matter.
  
• Presentation of adequate timely reports by the Mauritanian government.
  
• Creation of an inter-ministerial committee to write reports.
  

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