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CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE__________________________________________________________________________Adopt a national gender policy that will serve as a reference andorientation framework for all sectors of development.Guarantee women‟s rights by enforcing the laws adopted.Translate into local languages and disseminate the Individual and FamilyCode and all laws relating to the rights of women and the family.Provide the MFE, as well as gender focal points attached to sectordepartments, with the necessary authority and human and financialresources to enable them to perform their tasks.Allocate an adequate budget to the integration of gender issues in thepolicies and programmes of action of all departments.Ensure that there is systematic education and training in the human andlegal rights of women for all professional groups linked to judicial andextrajudicial activities, judges, doctors, lawyers, court clerks, bailiffs,traditional chiefs, and others.Strengthen education about the human rights of women in the primary andsecondary education curriculum.Take all measures aimed at ensuring the equal access of women to electiveand nonelective responsibilities, to political and administrative positions,and to political organisations and associations, through the adoption ofpositive measures of action such as quotas and the revision of electorallaws and legal texts.Civil society and the media are urged to strengthen awareness, in adults andchildren, of the human and legal rights of women.The private sector and civil society should promote the creation of an enablingenvironment for women to combine work and family life.Objective 8:Promote and protect children’s rightsi. Summary of the CSAR292. The CSAR gives a very brief account of the measures taken to protect childrenand young people. These include the creation of a Brigade for the Protectionof Minors (BPM) and a Children‟s Ministry; the creation of a Children‟sParliament; the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child andthe law against the trafficking and exploitation of children; free nursery andprimary education; training programmes for the youth in entrepreneurship;NGO programmes of international institutions like Aide et Action, Terre desHommes, Plan Benin, UNICEF, the Network for the Integration of African118
CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE__________________________________________________________________________Women Working in NGO and African Associations (RIFONGA) Benin, andothers. Several activities have been undertaken. These include the organisationof a seminar on youth employment; the promotion of civic education andcitizenship; the creation of a Ministry of Youth and Sports and Leisure; thecreation of recreation centres in the departments of the country; theestablishment, within the same ministry, of a press group for the sensitisationof youth, by the youth, about reproductive health in particular; theestablishment of youth centres in communities; and the training of youth inentrepreneurship.293. The CSAR mentions that, despite these measures, there are still manyproblems. These include child trafficking; illegal work and economicexploitation, particularly through child labour; and unemployment andmassive underemployment of the youth.294. With regard to weaknesses, the CSAR notes that laws on the rights of childrenand the youth are not being disseminated, that there is a lack of incentives tostructures that should take the youth into account, that there is a general lackof civic responsibility, and a lack of human and material resources to run therecreation centres.295. At the end of this review, the CSAR proposes solutions or actions to improvegovernance. These include disseminating laws on the rights of children,creating employment for youth through the promotion of local radio stations,and integrating the youth (also through the radio stations).ii.Conclusions of the CRM296. The CRM notes that Benin has acceded to a large number of international andregional instruments that protect the rights of children. One such instrument isthe Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was published on 5September 2006. Benin has also ratified the following documents:The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on theSale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (25 May2000).The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on theInvolvement of Children in Armed Conflicts (25 May 2000).Convention 138 of the ILO, on the minimum age of admission toemployment (11 June 2001).Convention 182 of the ILO on the banning of the worst forms of childlabour and immediate action for their elimination (28 May 2001).The United Nations Convention on Organised Transnational Crime and itsAdditional Protocol aimed at preventing, curbing and punishing thetrafficking of persons, in particular women and children; its Additional119
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COUNTRY FACT SHEETLocation:West Afr
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SOME ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL INDICAT
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Prospects for economic growth in me
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY__________________
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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION: THE APRM
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CHAPTER EIGHT: GENERAL CONCLUSIONS:
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APPENDIX I: PROGRAMME OF ACTION OF
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