15. The Committee on the Rights of the Child made the following recommendations to Mauritania in 20189: I. II. Review its legislation on nationality in order to ensure equality in the procedures for transmitting nationality to children through both the maternal and paternal line, in particular for those children who would otherwise be stateless; Ratifying the Convention Relating to the Status of the Stateless Persons of 1954 and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961. 16. Further, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women made the following recommendations to Mauritania in 2014:10 “Establish a legal reform process aimed at amending or repealing discriminatory legislation, including the discriminatory provisions of its penal, personal status and nationality codes. The Committee also recommends that the State party implement, without delay and within a clear time frame, the recommendations formulated by the National Human Rights Commission following its study of the implementation of the Personal Status Code.” 17. The Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination, made the following recommendations in 201811: I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. Ensure that Mauritanian men and women have equal rights with respect to the transmission of nationality to children and spouses; Intensify its efforts to find sustainable solutions for the resettlement of all Mauritanian returnees from Senegal in economic and social life, including by promoting their access to employment, education and health care and expediting their reinstatement in the administration, access to landownership and receipt of civil status documents, including for children; Ratify and implement the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Take action to improve the representation of the black African and Haratine communities in all spheres of political, public and social life and in the private sector, and that it provides statistical data in this regard in its next periodic report; Step up the implementation of special measures in respect of the black African and Haratine communities in order to promote their full integration into society, particularly in education, employment and health care; Consider the possibility of recognizing Pular, Soninke and Wolof as official languages, in consultation with the population groups concerned; Promote the use of national languages other than Arabic in public administration, social services and the judicial and law enforcement system. 18. The Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment completed his mission to Mauritania in February 2016 and his report was read to the 34th session of the Human Rights Council in 2017. The report made the following observations, though no specific recommendations, in relation to the issue of statelessness: "Repatriated Mauritanians who fled or were forcefully expelled during the humanitarian crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s face similar difficulties. Many 9 https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CRC/C/MRT/CO/3-5&Lang=En https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW%2fC%2fMRT%2fCO%2f2-3&Lang=en 11https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CERD/C/MRT/CO/8-14&Lang=En 10 4