American Anti-Slavery Group
The American Anti-Slavery Group (www.iAbolish.org) works to abolish modern slavery and human trafficking around the world, focusing primarily on systems of chattel slavery in Sudan and Mauritania. We partner with former victims of slavery to raise awareness of this vastly underreported humanitarian crisis. Our efforts are divided among education, advocacy, grassroots activism, and direct aid.
Website: www.iAbolish.org
Child Focus
Allows you to search for missing children in Mauritania.
Website: http://www.childfocus.org/
Child Rights Information Network: Mauritania
Lists numerous child-centered organizations in Mauritania that do not have websites. Lists contact information.
Website: http://www.crin.org/organisations/viewOrg.asp?ID=2328
Children and Development Association in Mauritania
The association actively participates in the promotion of the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) and undertakes sensitization campaigns through: the printing of educational material in the form of booklets for children and their families, public notices, T-shirts; training in the promotion of the CRC through workshops, seminars; and the promotion of the convention in five regions of Mauritania (Kiffa, Rosso, Ka�di, Atar, Nouadhibou).
Website: http://www.crin.org/organisations/viewOrg.asp?ID=2328
Coalition Against Slavery in Mauritania and Sudan (CASMAS)
A human rights, abolitionist movement started by activists from Mauritania, Sudan and the United States on March 5, 1995. The mission of CASMAS is to bring together abolitionists/human rights groups from Mauritania, South Sudan and North America to collectively fight for the eradication of institutionalized and chattel slavery and other forms of human rights violations in Africa, especially in Mauritania and Sudan.
Contact details
P. O. Box 3293
New York
NY 10027
USA
Phone: (212) 774-4287
Website: http://members.aol.com/casmasalc/silent_terror.html
Email: casmasalc [at] aol [dot] com
Commisariat aux Droits de l’Homme � La Lutte Contre la Pauvret� et � l’Insertion
The organization’s goals include: The use all of means necessary for the championing and dissemination of the principles and values of human rights ; The strenghthening of dialogue and concertation with all human rights groups and associations ; The development of cooperation and exchanges with all organisations and regional or international institutes concerned with human rights; The social treatment of poverty, with a focus to develop basic social services and assure their equitable distribution.
Contact details
Website: http://www.cdhlcpi.mr/
Mauritanian Association for the Health and Development of Women and Children
Contact details
Nouakchott
Mauritania
Phone: 22.22.56101 or 22.22.58961
Fax: 22.22.59010 or 22.22.58961
Options and Opportunities for Adolescents: Mauritania
The goal of this project is to support the Government’s efforts to eliminate gender inequality and regional disparities in education and improve future opportunities. It also aims to improve girls’ participation in the country’s political and economic life.
Website: http://www.unfpa.org/adolescents/opportunities/mauritania/mauri-npr.html
Organization for the Development of Women Through Work
Contact details
Nouakchott
Mauritania
Phone: 22.22.51962
Fax: 22.22.57156