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Mauritania - Islamic Republic of Mauritania - الجمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية
Culture & History
Mauritania Society and Culture Complete Report by World Trade Press
Need to know it all? Our all-inclusive culture report for Mauritania will get up to speed on all aspects of culture in Mauritania, including lifecycle, religion, women, superstitions & folklore, sports, holidays & festivals, and etiquette.
ISBN: 9781607804680
Publication Date: 2010
Politics & Foreign Relations
Streaming Video
Human Trafficking: A Crisis for the EU and the World
Europe’s wealth represents a golden opportunity for those who smuggle cheap, easily exploited workers across international borders. But how does the loathsome mechanism of human trafficking actually occur, and what are EU authorities doing to fight it? This program investigates by recording the experiences of human trafficking victims and evaluating the work of the EU government in the battle against 21st-century slavery. Corruption, prostitution, victim protection and repatriation, and the creation of FRONTEX—the agency responsible for European border patrol—are all highlighted, while members of the European Parliament and other officials discuss what must be done to improve anti-smuggling efforts.
Mauritania: Health Care for Pregnant Women
Each year, some 800 women in Mauritania die during childbirth. The country’s mortality rate for children under age five is also alarmingly high—approximately 14,500 deaths annually. This program follows Mauritania’s struggle to meet national objectives established with guidance from the United Nations—aiming at a 75-percent drop in maternal deaths and a 66-percent drop in child mortality by the year 2015. The film visits a badly equipped, severely understaffed gynecological health center in Kiffa; another in Sebkha, which has a new ultrasound machine but only intermittent electrical power; and an outreach team working in rural areas, where an innovative obstetrical health care program is gradually making a difference. Part of the series Sustainable Development: The World Challenge.
Over-Exploiting the Oceans: The Dangers of Overfishing
How long will the biosphere tolerate exploitation of the oceans? Are local fishermen a doomed species? What can be done to reverse the decline of fish stocks around the planet? This program documents the environmental and socioeconomic costs of excessive fishing. The film contrasts ancient maritime practices—like those of Mauritania’s Imragen fishermen and Djibouti’s pearl divers and lobster hunters—with large-scale fishing off Africa’s coasts. It also raises awareness of financial and political factors, such as the granting of monopolies to corporations and consortiums and the failure of international regulations to prevent illegal fishing. The harm caused by trawl and gill nets, as well as the risks and benefits of aquaculture, are crucial topics.
West Africa: Worlds Together
West Africa: Worlds Together provides a basic view of this rarely seen part of the world. View the wonderful diversity of the people of West Africa as they go about daily tasks.
Western Sahara to Libya: Episode 2—Tropic of Cancer
The second leg of his journey sees Simon dodge the Moroccan secret police in Western Sahara, travel on one of the world's longest trains in Mauritania, visit a forgotten refugee camp in the Algerian desert where more than 100,000 people live, and take a swim in a Libyan oasis with a government minder who bears an uncanny resemblance to Colonel Gaddafi.
Capital City - Nouakchott
Mauritania Society and Culture Complete Report by
Need to know it all? Our all-inclusive culture report for Mauritania will get up to speed on all aspects of culture in Mauritania, including lifecycle, religion, women, superstitions & folklore, sports, holidays & festivals, and etiquette.
