B- Periodic report on progress made since the last report submitted in 2000. Accession of Benin to human rights instruments. Since the examination of the previous periodic report on the African Charter presented in 2000, Benin has pursued its accession to international human rights conventions or their ratification. Thus between 2000 and 2006, Benin became a party to a number of international legal instruments, namely : a. The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography as well as the Protocol to the African Charter on the rights and well-being of the Child ratified on 30 March, 2004; b. The optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, ratified on 28th February, 2005 ; c. Convention n°138 of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) of 1973 on the minimum age for admission into employment, ratified on June 11, 2001 ; d. United Nations Convention against organised transnational criminality and its additional protocol aimed at preventing, repressing, and punishing trafficking of persons especially women and children, on 06 November, 2003 ; e. The Anti-Corruption Convention on 23rd September, 2005 ; f. The optional protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, on 20 September, 2006. g. The Convention on the Civil Service in Africa, ratified on 5th February, 2001. -7-