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Survival and Development (Art. 5 ACRWC): cf. above general principles:
The struggle against infanticide is reinforced with the new national policy for children's
protection.
Articles 339 to 341 of the new Child Code define the criminal process of infanticide in
general and ritual infanticide.
And while waiting for the promulgation of that new Child Code, Article 302 of the
current Criminal Code governs the repression of infanticide and targets particularly
the mother author or accomplice of infanticide. In this case, she is subject to life
imprisonment with forced labor when she is the author or accomplice of the murder of
their children. In case of murder, she is subject to temporal forced labor (5 to 20
years).
The new Child Code currently being promulgated, addresses this principle in its
Article 16, then in Articles 168 and sec., and provides for the protection of children in
difficult situation, and finally in its Article 169 retains the child called "witch" as a
category of children in a difficult situation.
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BASIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Protection of Children with disabilities:
State of play of Children with disabilities in Benin:
According to RGPH 3-2002 census, the total population of people with disabilities is
up to 172,870 individuals. Children with disabilities under 10 years represent 11.6%
and those with disabilities under 15 years represent 18% of the whole population of
people with disabilities living in Benin.
Disabilities found in this population of children less than 15 years are: lower limb
paralysis (16.5%), deafness (13.8%) and visual disorders (11.9%).
Relatively to the main disabilities affecting children under 15 years, one can note that
more than three quarters affected by lower limb paralysis are 5 years of age or more
versus 23.1% for those less than 5 years. This allows concluding of the relative
efficiency to the Polio mass immunization campaign of children under 5 years
established for about five years.
Conversely, concerning blindness, children under five years seem more affected than
those beyond five years.
According to the social log-book, the situation of disability analyzed in 2013 is outlined
in the following table: