adopted for the period 2006-2008. At the end of the agreement eight (8) areas of
joint intervention are mentioned: prevention, repression, protection, repatriation,
reunification, rehabilitation, reintegration and cooperation.
The bilateral agreement finally entered into between Benin and Nigeria on the
prevention, repression and suppression of Trafficking in persons, especially women
and children, which was signed in Cotonou on June 09, 2005. It was accompanied
by a memorandum of understanding also concluded between the two countries in the
same year (2005). Under this memorandum, three (03) border surveillance brigades
between the two countries were created.
Benin-Congo Bilateral Agreement for Cooperation in the Prevention and Suppression
of Trafficking in Human Beings, Especially Women and Children, signed in
September 2011, followed by an Action Plan signed in January 2012 by the two
parties.
At national level
The various existing legislative and regulatory acts are:
Law No. 90-32 establishing the Constitution of the Republic of Benin ;
Law No. 98-004 of January 27, 1998 on the Labour Code in the Republic of Benin ;
Law No. 2002-07 of August 24, 2004 on Personal and Family Code,
Law No. 2003-03 of March 3, 2003 penalizing the practice of female genital
mutilation;
Law No. 2003-04 of March 3, 2003 on sexual and reproductive health published in
the Official Gazette of March 15, 2003
Law No. 2006 -04 of April 10, 2006 defining the conditions
under which minors may travel and suppressing child trafficking in Benin ;
Law No. 2006-19 of September 05, 2006 on the repression of sexual harassment
and protection of victims in Benin ;
Decree of May 6, 1877 called the BOUVENET CODE on the Criminal Code, in West
Africa ;
Law No. 2011- 26 of January 09, 2012 on the prevention and repression of violence
against women in the Republic of Benin ;
Law No. 2012-15 of March 30, 2012 setting out the Code of Criminal Procedure of
the Republic of Benin ;
Law 2005-31 of April 10, 2006 on the prevention, care and control of HIV/AIDS in the
Republic of Benin published in the Official Gazette on September 1, 2006.