Assistant Commissioner for Human Rights Meets Chairperson of African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

The Assistant Commissioner for Human Rights, Humanitarian Action and Relations with Civil Society, Mr. Rassoul Ould El Khal, met on Thursday evening at the headquarters of the Embassy of Mauritania in the Gambian capital, Banjul, with Mr. Rémi Angui Lembo, President of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders in Africa.
In this meeting, organized on the sidelines of the 79th session of the African Commission and Peoples, the Assistant Commissioner for Human Rights touched on the distinguished relations between our country and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the progress made by our country to ensure an atmosphere of openness and the promotion and guarantee of freedoms, including freedom of expression and assembly.
He recalled the adoption by the Mauritanian government of Law No. 2021/0004 on the establishment of associations, organizations and networks, which adopted the permit system instead of the licensing system that was in place, in the establishment of civil society organizations, in addition to the approval by the Council of Ministers of the National Strategy for the Promotion of Civil Society and the National Strategy for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, which constitute a qualitative addition.
During the meeting, the Assistant Commissioner also touched on the atmosphere of openness in the country in light of the presidential elections that are currently being prepared to organize.
For his part, the Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights praised the Mauritanian government’s positive interaction with the Commission, the progress made, the atmosphere of openness and positive interaction with everything that would promote and protect human rights in the country.