African Unity, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, and other instruments adopted by the United Nations and by African countries in the field of human rights, and from African values and traditions". Moreover, in the last paragraph of the preamble to the above mentioned Charter (ACRWC), particularly in its article 48, the state party reaffirms its adherence to the principles and rights enshrined in the CRC. Measures to harmonize the provisions of the ACRWC: 3. - From 1997 to date, new national and international laws and regulatory acts for child protection have come into effect. Benin has ratified various international agreements and conventions for the protection of children. International conventions ratified after the ACRWC Date of ratification The Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the ratified on Child, on the sale of children, child prostitution, and child February 28, 2005 pornography - The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the ratified on February 28, 2005 Child, on the involvement of children in armed conflict - ILO Convention No. 138 on the Minimum Age for Admission to ratified by Benin on June 11, 2011 Employment - ILO Convention No. 182 on Prohibition and Immediate Action ratified by Benin on November 11, for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour ; 2001 - Convention on Organized Crime to Prevent, Suppress and ratified by Benin on Monday, Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children August 30, 2004 - The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in ratified by Benin Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the on August 30, United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized 2004 Crime - The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and ratified September Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 2006 on 20,