N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Consider, with targeted international support, the extension of free education up to the secondary level.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 3 - Considering action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Right to education
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Continue to strengthen its efforts to provide for better legal protection for vulnerable groups and to guarantee their rights on the ground.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 2 - Continuing action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Minority rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Consider decriminalizing homosexual activities between consenting adults.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 3 - Considering action
- Réponse
- Noted
- Thèmes
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Intensify its efforts to favour support and material assistance to the most marginalized families and the most underprivileged families to effectively guarantee the rights of children through a sufficient standard of living and the right to education inter alia.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 4 - General action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Poverty
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Recommended that Benin ensure that no statement obtained under torture or duress can be invoked in proceedings and that orders from a superior may not be invoked as a justification of torture.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 4 - General action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Promote the visit of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography which could contribute to the efforts of Benin in its protection of children.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 4 - General action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Rights of the Child
- Special procedures
- Trafficking
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Take effective measures to ensure that prison conditions are consistent with international standards.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 4 - General action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Detention
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Take measures to ensure that torture is defined and listed as a specific offence within Benin's criminal law.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 4 - General action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Establish as a priority a reform of the judiciary by strengthening a justice system which would be better able to combat impunity and corruption, including by putting an end to exaggerated pre-trial detention.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 5 - Specific action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Corruption
- Detention
- Impunity
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Urgently amend its criminal law to comply with international relevant standards.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 5 - Specific action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Better apply the existing laws concerning trafficking in children and human beings.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 4 - General action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Give more importance to the schooling of girls in its education programmes, which would certainly contribute to combat female genital mutilation.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 4 - General action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Systematically and continuously integrate a gender perspective in the follow-up process to the review.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 4 - General action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- UPR process
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Consider the abolition of death penalty and to consider ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 3 - Considering action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Death penalty
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Take further steps to ensure that juvenile courts are set up and that children are separated from adults in detention facilities.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 4 - General action
- Réponse
- Noted
- Thèmes
- Detention
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Integrate, in a systematic manner, a gender perspective in the UPR follow-up process.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 4 - General action
- Réponse
- Noted
- Thèmes
- UPR process
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Bring the criminalization of child trafficking in line with international standards.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 4 - General action
- Réponse
- Noted
- Thèmes
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Take further steps to address discrimination against women and vulnerable groups, including children.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 4 - General action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Remove the death penalty from its legislation and become a party to the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR aiming at abolishing the death penalty.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 5 - Specific action
- Réponse
- Noted
- Thèmes
- Death penalty
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Complete the reform of the judicial system.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 5 - Specific action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Remove impediments women may face in gaining access to justice and take special measures, in collaboration with the CHRAJ, to enhance women's awareness of their rights, and legal literacy to claim their rights.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 4 - General action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Justice
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Share its experiences, inter alia, regarding the African Peer Review Mechanism and the National Reconciliation Commission.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 1 - Minimal action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Effectively implement measures to harmonize norms of citizenship for foreign spouses to bring these norms in line with the CEDAW in the shortest time possible.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 4 - General action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- International instruments
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Continue improving economic, social and cultural rights.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 2 - Continuing action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- ESC rights - general
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Abolish by law the use of corporal punishment in all settings
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 5 - Specific action
- Réponse
- Noted
- Thèmes
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
That Ghana's Criminal Code be amended to decriminalize sexual activity between consenting adults.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 5 - Specific action
- Réponse
- Noted
- Thèmes
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Continue to eradicate cultural practices that violate the rights of women and girls.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 2 - Continuing action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Recommended the adoption of a legal moratorium on the use of the death penalty with a view to abolishing capital punishment in Ghana's national legislation.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 5 - Specific action
- Réponse
- Noted
- Thèmes
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Adopt measures to combat violence, in particular through legislation defining and outlawing domestic violence, and by providing training to judges and civil servants and organizing awareness-raising programmes targeting society as a whole.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 5 - Specific action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- État examiné
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommandation
Further step up its efforts to bring earlier national legislation in line with its international obligations, especially in the area of women's and children's rights, considering that article 116 of the Constitution gives precedence to international law.
- État Recommandant
- Catégorie d'Action
- 4 - General action
- Réponse
- Supported
- Thèmes
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights