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A United Nations independent expert has urged the Government of Benin to make child protection a priority in its agenda, following a visit to the country which revealed that violence and exploitation of children is...
Summary: The violations highlighted are those issues raised with the State by more than one international mechanism. This is done with the intention of identifying children's rights which have been repeatedly violated, as well as gaps in the issues...
Summary: The agencies of the United Nations, the principal NGOs in matters of child protection plus a good number of States are today in agreement about the need to find alternatives to overseas adoptions . This paradigm shift, approved of by Tdh ,...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does not include reports of child specific Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child...
Summary: Cette section résume les questions des droits de l'enfant soulevées par les mandataires des procédures Spéciales des Nations Unies. Une introduction aux droits de l'enfant et les procédures sp...
Summary: Facing hardship, families in Benin are sending their children to work in sometimes brutal conditions in neighbouring Nigeria.The abuse Timothy Goudjana suffered as a teenage labourer in Nigeria still haunts him. But decades later, he sent...
Summary: The 14th Session of the Universal Periodic Review will take place from 22 October - 5 November 2012. Below is a list of the countries to be reviewed during the session.
The 14th session of the UPR opened in Geneva on 22 October, with the...
Summary: A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the second Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National Report', the 'Compilation of UN Information' and the 'Summary of Stakeholders...
To educate the public, the bar (lawyers), and the judiciary (judges) about the harm caused by all forms of childhood genital cutting, including female genital cutting (also known as female genital mutilation or FGM), male genital cutting (also known...
Title:Decision DCC 07-009 of 30 January 2007
Court/Judicial Body:Benin Constitutional Court
Citation:Decision DCC 07-009
Date:January 30, 2007
Instruments Cited:The Benin Constitution and related legislationThe African Charter on Human and People...
