Submission by Human Rights Watch to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning Mauritania

79th pre-sessional working group February 2018 This submission relates to Articles 7, 8, 13, 24, 28, 32, 34, and 38 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and focuses on three themes: how a family’s inability to complete the process of civil registration affects children’s access to primary and secondary education; child marriage; and the protection of students, teachers, and schools during armed conflict. It proposes issues and questions that Committee members may wish to raise with the government. The submission is mainly based on research conducted by Human Rights Watch in the capital,…

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