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Mauritania
Islamic Republic of Mauritania
République Islamique de Mauritanie
Al Jumhuriyah al Islamiyah al Muritaniyah
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
- International Constitutional Law: Mauritania Index (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation of the constitution plus Background Note, a key number system to locate parts, and links to comparative information
Executive
- President, Prime Minister, Council of Ministers; see Official Government
Judicial
- Cour Supreme
Legislative
- OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Journal officiel de la Republique islamique de Mauritanie
- PARLIAMENT: Majlis al-Watani [National Assembly] and Majlis al-Shuyukh [Senate]
- GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers 212 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations issued from January 1963 to March 2004, with full-text access
- NATLEX: Mauritania (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
Legal Guides
- Global Legal Monitor: Mauritania (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Collections Database: Mauritania (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- ForIntLaw: Mauritania (Washburn University Law Library)
- Sources of Online Legal Information for African Countries (Jane Williams, via GlobaLex) June 2006
- World Legal Information Institute: Mauritania (WorldLII)
- World Legal Materials from Africa: Mauritania (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- Country Study: Mauritania (Library of Congress) December 1987
- Portals to the World: Mauritania (Library of Congress)
- Background Note: Mauritania (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Mauritania (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Consular Information Sheet: Mauritania (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Information: Mauritania (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Mauritania (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Embassy of Mauritania, Washington
- Governments on the WWW: Mauritania (Gunnar Anzinger)
- Human Rights in Mauritania (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Mauritania (U.S. Dept. of State)
- NATIONAL LIBRARY: Bibliotheque Nationale - information (IFLA)
- U.S. Embassy, Nouakchott (U.S. Dept. of State)
- World Factbook: Mauritania (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- World Hunger: Mauritania (World Food Programme)
- WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Mauritania (Google); Mauritania (Stanford University); Mauritania (Yahoo); Middle East Studies: Mauritania (Columbia University); WWW-VL Middle East Studies: Mauritania (University of Texas, Austin)
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Last Updated: 09/25/2008