Constitutional Executive Branch Judiciary Legislatures Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Benin)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• Constitution de la République du Bénin (Benin) in French
• Constitution de la République du Bénin (Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie) in French

EXECUTIVE ARM

• President; Council of Ministers
• Government

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• COURTS: Cour Constitutionnelle; Cour Supreme

LEGISLATIVE

• OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Journal Officiel
• PARLIAMENT: Assemblee Nationale
• Laws of Bénin (AfrikInfo)
• NATLEX: Benin (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Benin (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• FindLaw: Benin
• ForIntLaw: Benin (Washburn University Law Library)
• Sources of Online Legal Information for African Countries (Jane Williams, via GlobaLex) June 2006
• World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Benin (Germany Bundestag)
• World Law Index: Benin (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Africa: Benin (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Portals to the World: Benin ()
• Background Notes: Benin (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Benin (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Benin (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Benin (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Benin (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Governments on the WWW: Benin (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Benin (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Benin (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NATIONAL LIBRARY: Bibliotheque Nationale - information (IFLA)
• NEWS: BBC French; BBC World Africa
• U.S. Embassy, Cotonou (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Benin (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• World Hunger: Benin (World Food Programme)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Benin (Google); Benin (Stanford University); Benin (Yahoo); WWW-VL African Studies: Benin (Columbia University)