a3. Achievements
The Labour Code includes provisions on child labour.
Niger has subscribed to the different international conventions protecting the
child from economic exploitation (ILO Conventions 138 and 182).
Niger‟s Labour Code introduces and cracks down on new offences like
slavery, genocide, etc.
Associations combating child labour lend their support to the efforts deployed
by the State.
The IPEC programme is implemented
A national child labour steering committee and coordination unit are in place;
A national action plan to fight child labour exists.
B. Drug abuse (article 28)
b1. Legislative, administrative and judicial measures
Ordinance No. 99-42 of 23 September 1999 related to the fight against drugs in Niger
regulates the possession, sale, transfer and consumption of narcotics, mood modifying
drugs and precursors.
Article 33 of the CRC protects children from the consumption of narcotics.
Section 147 of the above-mentioned ordinance forbids the supply of toxic chemical sniff
glue to children, on pain of imprisonment sentence ranging from 1 to 5 years and fine
from 100,000 to 500,000 Francs.
Section 115 even provides for measures of treatment in replacement of the prison
sentence.
b2. Limitations
Widespread use of dissolution and essencen gas by inhaling.
The population‟s indifference to this fast growing phenomenon.
The sale of glue is not regulated.
The use of certain weeds which have a hallucinogenic effect.
The absence of specialized detoxification structures although previewed by
the instruments.
The most serious cases are managed by psychiatric services.
b3. Achievements
Existence of an anti-drug centre;
Creation of a national anti-drug commission;
Seizure and incineration every year of large quantities of drugs.
C. Abuse and torture (article 16)
c1. Legislative, administrative and judicial measures
Article 12 de la Constitution forbids all acts of torture, physical violence or degrading and
inhuman treatment.
The Penal Code punishes all forms of physical or moral abuses committed on children.
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