Mauritania

Dedicated Migrant Detention Sites: 1 (2009)

Est. Detention Capacity: 216 Bunk Beds (2008)

Max. Length of Detention: No Limit

Refugees: 27,041 (January 2009)

Asylum Applicants: 62 (January 2009)

Last updated: February 2010

Mauritania Detention Profile

For more detailed information, see the complete List of Detention Sites.

Sources
(This is only a partial list. More detailed information is available upon request.)

Amnesty International (AI). 2008a. “Mauritania: Nobody Wants to Have Anything to Do With Us.” AFR 38/001/2008. 1 July 2008. http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AFR38/001/2008/en/d05d42f1-393e-466c-831a-822d76fa3c1e/afr380012008eng.pdf (accessed 11 November 2009).
Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado (CEAR). 2009. “Informe de evaluación del centro de detención de migrantes en Nouadhibou (Mauritania).” CEAR. Declarada de Utilitad Pública. G 28651529. 2009. http://www.cear.es/files/Informe%20CEAR%20Nouadhibou%202009%20.pdf (accessed 11 November 2009).
European Social Watch (ESW). 2009. “Spain: The Externalisation of Migration and Asylum Policies: The Nouadhibou Detention Centre.” http://www.socialwatch.eu/wcm/Spain.html (accessed 2 February 2010).
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD). 2008. “Mission to Mauritania.” United Nations Human Rights Council. A/HRC/10/21/Add.2. 21 November 2008. http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G08/168/99/PDF/G0816899.pdf?OpenElement (accessed 11 November 2009).