B- In the area of protection of Human rights Measures adopted are to : - Continue sensitisation of the population and training of target groups ; - Ensure wide popularisation of national and international human rights instruments; - Boost efforts at poverty alleviation; - Put in place a national mechanism for the prevention of torture in Benin ; - Operationalise the new jurisdictions created in accordance with act n° 2001-37 of 27 August 2002 relating to the Judicial System of the Republic of Benin; - Pursue recruitment of Bench staff and build the capacity of support staff; - Continue gazetting all international instruments pertaining to human rights to which Benin is a party ; - Improve the legal environment; - pursue and intensify the anti-corruption drive ; - continue periodic visits to detention and remand centres - equip all prison clinics in Benin with the requisite medication and materials necessary for first aid treatment; - make the new prisons to be constructed under the BudgetProgramme more effective. CONCLUSION From 2000 to 2006, the Government of Benin made significant progress with respect to the implementation of the provisions of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. However, there are still more challenges to be met with regard to the institutional and legal framework. Regarding the institutional framework, there is a need to pursue the establishment of jurisdictions and to make them operational. - 28 -