Constitution Executive COURTS AND JUDICIARY Legislative Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Mauritania)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• International Constitutional Law: Mauritania Index (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation of the constitution plus background notes, a key number system to locate parts, and links to comparative information

EXECUTIVE ARM

• President, Prime Minister, Council of Ministers; see Official Government

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• Cour Supreme

LEGISLATIVE

• OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Journal officiel de la Republique islamique de Mauritanie
• PARLIAMENT: Majlis al-Watani [National Assembly] and Majlis al-Shuyukh [Senate]
• Global Legal Network: Global Legal Information Network (Law Legal Issues ) 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 Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Mauritania (Law ) 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 Law Index: Mauritania (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Africa: Mauritania (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
• WWW-VL Islamic Law: Mauritania (University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Mauritania () December 1987
• Portals to the World: Mauritania ()
• Background Notes: 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)