African Charter on Human and People's Rights: June 18, 1981 (Annex to the Constitution of the Republic of Bénin) (Benin [bj])

Adopted by the eighteenth Conference of Chiefs of State and the Government of the ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY on 18 June 1981 at Nairobi, Kenya and ratified by Bénin on 20 January 1986. The African States members of the Organization of African Unity, parties to the present convention entitled "Banjul Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights," RECALLING Decision 115 (XVI) of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government at its Sixteenth Ordinary Session held in Monrovia, Liberia, from 17 to 20 July 1979 on the preparation of "a preliminary draft on an African Charter...