AFRICAN UNION
UNION AFRICAINE
UNIÃO AFRICANA
African Commission on Human &
Peoples’ Rights
Commission Africaine des Droits de l’Homme et des
Peuples
48, Kairaba Avenue, P. O. Box 673, Banjul, The Gambia Tel: (220)4 377721 Fax: (220)4 390 764 E-mail:
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Forty-Fifth Ordinary Session
13 - 27 May 2009, Banjul, The Gambia
Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties under the Terms of Article
62 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the
Second Periodic Report of the Republic of Benin
I - Introduction
1. The Republic of Benin (Benin) is a State Party to the African Charter on
Human an Peoples’ Rights (the African Charter) having ratified same on 20
January 1986.
2. Benin submitted its Initial Periodic Report to the African Commission on
Human and Peoples’ Rights (the African Commission) in 1992 and the Report
was considered in October 1994 at the 16th Ordinary Session of the African
Commission. The First Periodic Report was submitted in May 2000 and was
considered in October 2000 at the 28th Ordinary Session.
3. The present Report which covers the period from 2000 to 2008 is the State
Party’s Second Periodic Report and was submitted to the Secretariat of the
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Secretariat) on 28
August 2008. It was examined by the African Commission during its 45th
Ordinary Session held from 13 to 27 May 2009.
4. The Report was introduced to the African Commission by Mr. Hounyeaze
Patrice, Head of the Delegation of Republic of Benin, and presented by
Zinkpe Marie-Gisele, Director of Human Rights Services of the Ministry of
Justice, Benin. The Report highlights the developments that have taken place