UN Compilation >> Mauritania, Review Documentation, 37th Session, January 2021

The HR Committee recommended that Mauritania: (a) promote the enactment of the bill on gender-based violence and speed up the adoption of a new national action plan on gender-based violence; (b) introduce a definition of the offence of rape, referred to in article 309 of the Criminal Code, in a manner consistent with international human rights standards; (c) step up efforts to investigate cases of violence against women, in the private and public spheres alike, and to prosecute and punish those responsible; (d) take steps so that women victims of rape were not prosecuted for adultery (zina); and (e) ensure that protection measures, assistance and effective remedies were available and accessible to all women victims of violence. [Para 43]