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• Justice not working for rape victims. IRIN News, 13 May 2008. The Mauritanian government says it is trying to increase prosecutions of rape cases but poorly trained judges working with murky, outdated legal texts make for slow progress.
  
• Mauritania's observes Day of Zero Tolerance on Female Genital Mutilation. UNICEF, 14 February 2008. An estimated 65 per cent of Mauritanian girls have suffered through female genital mutilation, or cutting (FGM/C), and its dramatic consequences.
• Despite Challenging Socio-Economic Environment, Mauritania Committed To Ensuring Women’s Rights, Anti-Discrimination Committee Told. PressZoom, 29 May 2007. When the sub-Saharan African country of Mauritania joined the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 2000, it had entered a “general” reservation to the text, the thrust of which was that Islamic law would prevail over the treaty in the case of a contradiction, but today the Government announced its intention to specify the provisions to which it had reservations, thereby removing its “general” reservation to the Convention.
• Man in Saudi beheaded for rape. News 24, 30 April 2007. A Mauritanian national was beheaded by the sword in the Muslim holy city of Medina on Monday after being convicted of rape and robbery, said the interior ministry.