They have been reunited with their parents. It includes beds, wheelchairs, surgical equipment and medicines. Opposition decries political climate Eight of Mauritania's opposition parties, in a letter addressed on Tuesday to visiting Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, decried Mauritania's lack of civil liberties and called upon Wade to press for more freedom, including on the political plane, AFP reported on Tuesday. The parties cited human rights abuses, press censorship, the banning of political parties and the unlawful arrests of opposition leaders as some of the violations of the regime. Since the last quarter of last year, Mauritania has been plagued by political instability, including the arrest of several opposition members and leaders and the dissolution of the Union des forces democratiques-Ere Nouvelle.
Maximum penalties are to be applied if the perpetrators are health professionals.
The funds will go to areas such as rehabilitating the Lagos shoreline, fighting drought and desertification, and sanitation. Mixed record on economic, social and cultural rights Togo has undertaken steps towards respecting some economic, social and cultural rights but it needs to improve on others, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights said on 11 May at the end of its 25th session. The committee commended the government for establishing a national human rights commission, creating a human rights ministry, and fighting child trafficking and female genital mutilation. It said, however, that it was concerned about the general deterioration of human rights, especially since presidential elections in 1998. Over the past three years there have been widespread reports of rapes, extrajudicial killings and house bombings.