TAAZOUR Delegation and National Human Rights Commission Sign Partnership Agreement

Nouakchott, 12 August 2020 (AMI)- The General Delegate for National Solidarity and the Fight against Exclusion (Taazour), Mr. Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Bouasriya, and the Head of the National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH), Mr. Ahmed Salem Ould Bouhebeini, signed, on 12 August in Nouakchott, a partnership agreement to enhance cooperation and complementarity between them.
The agreement aimed at formalizing the two bodies’ will to establish a constructive partnership that ensures cooperation and unification of their efforts, as a way to satisfy the basic needs of the poor and vulnerable groups of the population, especially those that have suffered or suffer from injustice and marginalization.
It is also meant to redouble efforts and develop cooperation to meet the challenges related to ensuring the social and economic rights of the target groups.
In this framework, it specifically aims at facilitating access to safe drinking water, health, education, and electricity services, and providing a decent standard of living, training and supervision in the areas of managing income-generating projects, in order to enhance the economic inclusion of the target population. In general, it seeks to fulfill all the citizens’ economic, social, and cultural rights.
In a statement on the sidelines of the signing ceremony, the General Delegate affirmed that the agreement, the first of its kind at the national level, is an embodiment of the national will aimed at concerting efforts in order to protect human rights and promote them to the level of the aspirations and hopes that the target groups place on the pledges contained in the program of President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazwani.
In turn, the head of the National Human Rights Commission expressed his happiness to conclude this agreement, which was the result of the efforts of both sides to change the reality of those vulnerable groups.