Skip to cookie privacy notice Skip to main content
Human Rights Watch
  • العربية
  • 简中
  • 繁中
  • English
  • Français
  • Deutsch
  • 日本語
  • Русский
  • Português
  • Español
  • More languages
Donate Now
  • العربية
  • 简中
  • 繁中
  • English
  • Français
  • Deutsch
  • 日本語
  • Русский
  • Português
  • Español
  • More languages
Would you like to read this page in another language?
Yes
Would you like to see a version of this page that loads faster by showing text only?
Yes
Africa
  • Angola
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cameroon
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)
  • Ethiopia
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea
  • Kenya
  • Liberia
  • Malawi
  • Mali
  • Mauritius
  • Mozambique
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Rwanda
  • Senegal
  • Sierra Leone
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Sudan
  • Sudan
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Benin

August 27, 2019

Nigeria: Anguish, Poverty Confront Trafficking Survivors

Many survivors of sex and labor trafficking struggle with unaddressed health challenges, poverty, and abhorrent conditions upon their return to Nigeria.

Benin country page map
  • Children's Rights
    Students enrolled in the final year of lower secondary school in the classroom in a village in Kolda region, southern Senegal. Adolescent mothers and married girls study in this school.

    June 14, 2018

    News Release
    Africa: Pregnant Girls, Young Mothers Barred from School
  • Migrant and Refugee Children
    migrants uk

    August 13, 2015

    Dispatches
    Dispatches: Europe’s Refugee Crisis – Has UK Forgotten the Past?
    Izza Leghtas
    Researcher, Western Europe
  • Refugees and Migrants

    May 21, 2015

    News Release
    EU: Don’t Endanger Lives at Sea or Deny Protection

Reports

More reports
  • June 14, 2018 Report

    Leave No Girl Behind in Africa

    Discrimination in Education against Pregnant Girls and Adolescent Mothers

    “Evelina,” 17, with her 3-year-old daughter “Hope,” in Migori county, western Kenya. Evelina is in Form 2, the second year of lower secondary school.
  • December 1, 2003 Report

    Policy Paralysis

    A Call for Action on HIV/AIDS-Related Human Rights Abuses Against Women and Girls in Africa

  • April 1, 2003 Report

    Borderline Slavery

    Child Trafficking In Togo

  • January 1, 2001 Report

    Protectors or Pretenders

    Government Human Rights Commissions in Africa

News

  • October 7, 2022 Statement

    Benin: Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

    85th Pre-session

  • October 30, 2017 Letter

    Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning Benin

    79th pre-sessional working group

  • March 10, 2016 Statement

    UN Human Rights Council: Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights

    Statement delivered under Item 2

  • July 30, 2009 Statement

    African Civil Society Urges African States Parties to the Rome Statute to Reaffirm Their Commitment to the ICC

  • December 9, 2008 Letter

    European Union: Urgently Deploy a "Bridging" Force to North Kivu in the eastern DRC

    Letter to European Union member states

  • March 11, 2008 Letter

    Organisation of the Islamic Conference: Improve and Strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism

  • July 2, 2003 Statement

    President Bush's Trip to Africa

  • June 11, 2003 News Release

    U.S. State Department Trafficking Report Undercut by Lack of Analysis

  • April 1, 2003 News Release

    West Africa: Stop Trafficking in Child Labor

    Child labor on cocoa farms 'tip of the iceberg'

Read More
People on fire

Daily Brief

Aug 29, 2024

500 Days of Sudan’s Conflict; Quick Takes: Inequality; Lebanon; Brazil; Readers’ Recommendations; Weekly Quiz!; Daily Videos: Afghanistan; Kazakhstan; Gaza; Climate; Iran; Support Our Work!

Protecting Rights, Saving Lives

Human Right Watch defends the rights of people in 90 countries worldwide, spotlighting abuses and bringing perpetrators to justice.

Donate Now

Get updates on human rights issues from around the globe. Join our movement today.

Processing..
Thank you for signing up!
An error occurred while subscribing your email address. Please try again.

Connect With Us

  • X
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • TikTok

Footer menu

  • Contact Us
  • Corrections
  • Privacy Policy
  • Permissions
  • Site Map
  • Child Safeguarding
Text Version
© 2024 Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch | 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor | New York, NY 10118-3299 USA | t 1.212.290.4700

Human Rights Watch is a 501(C)(3) nonprofit registered in the US under EIN: 13-2875808

Human Rights Watch