Advocacy at the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) on the selling of public schools’ lands in Mauritania

In partnership with the Association des Femmes Chefs de Familles (AFCF), GI-ESCR made a joint submission  to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) on privatisation of education in Mauritania and the selling of public school lands ahead of Mauritania’s examination during the 34th Ordinary Session of the Committee.

The joint submission provides an analysis of the negative impact of privatisation of education in Mauritania on human rights and the right to education in the light of the Abidjan Principles on the right to education, and looks particularly at the case of the auction of public school lands by the Mauritanian Government in 2015, and the subsequent closing of six historic public schools in the center of Nouakchott.

In accordance with the information bought to the Committee by AFCF and GI-ESCR, the Committee questioned the Mauritanian representation on this privatisation trends undermining the right to education and the governments motives for the selling of public schools land.

The submission as well as the report on which it is based, are available here in French, Arabic and English : https://www.gi-escr.org/publications/sale-of-public-school-lands-mauritania