August 2018: submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Mauritania

Ending child slaveryLetters and submissionsMauritaniaWestern/Central Africa

A joint submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child by Anti-Slavery International, Minority Rights Group and SOS Esclaves ) ahead of the Committee’s examination of the combined third to fifth periodic reports of Mauritania at the 79th session (17 September – 5 October 2018). It provides information on children in descent-based slavery and discrimination against Haratine children and other children of slavery descent in Mauritania.