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Benin Benin: Child Soldier Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers Recruitment in Benin is governed by Law no. 63-5 of 30 May 1963, as amended by Ordinance no. 75-77 of 28 November 1975. According to Benin’s report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, 21 is the minimum age for enlistment in the army, either as a volunteer or as a conscript. Conscription is selective and lasts 18 months. About 800 to 1,000 persons are conscripted each year. It appears that in practice volunteers may be accepted into the armed forces at age 18. According to UNICEF there is no underage recruitment into the Benin armed forces. The government has also maintained that it does not recruit under-18s. June 12, 2001 Benin: Government Human Rights Commissions in Africa Despite its broad powers and the favorable political climate, the Commission Béninoise des Droits de l'Homme [the Benin Human Rights Commission] (CBDH) has been virtually inactive. It was created by the legislature in 1989, following seventeen years of socialist military rule in Benin, at the initiative of a group of human rights lawyers. Ten years later, the CBDH's record indicates little or no activity, despite the transition to elected government and significant improvements in the human rights situation as compared to the past. January 1, 2001
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