Human Right Commissioner Oversees Activities Commemorating African Day of Human Rights

The Commissioner for Human Rights, Humanitarian Action, and Relations with Civil Society, Mr. Cheikh Ahmedou Ould Ahmed Salem Ould Sidi, supervised Thursday in Nouakchott the launch of the activities commemorating African Day of Human Rights, organized this year under the theme: “ Human Rights in Africa 40 years after the Adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

The participant will follow a set of presentations that include three basic topics: Mauritania and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights 40 years of its implementation, and the developments that this system has witnessed.

On this occasion, the Commissioner for Human Rights, Humanitarian Action, and Relations with Civil Society said that Mauritania was amongst the first countries that ratified the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, pursuant to Legal Order 86-099 issued on July 14, 1986.

He added that our country firmly believes in the necessity of an African human and peoples’ rights system that takes into account the cultural specificity of Africa and its multiple contexts.

The commissioner declared that Mauritania included the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights in the preamble of its constitution, adopting it as one of the references to the national legal legislation to accentuate the values and principles contained in it.