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Burkina Faso

Child Related Laws
Child Related Policies
State Party Reports


Constitution of the Republic of Burkina Faso, 1991
Education Act, 2000 *
Law Establishing the AIDS Council, 2001 *
Law Establishing the Human Rights Commission, 2009 *
Family Code, 1989 *
Law Regulating Hazardous Labour of Children, 2009 *
Labour Law,2008 *
Penal Code, 1996 *
Law on Juvenile Delinquency, 1961 *
Law on the Protection of Rights of the Child and Adolescent in the Media, 2009 *
Law to Combat Trafficking, 2008 *
Law on Reproductive Health, 2005 *
Law on HIV/AIDS, 2008 *
Law on Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disability, 2010 *
A Law for Free Medical Care for Women and Children Under Five, 2016 *


Health Policy, 2000 *
National Policy on Child Labour, 2009 *
National Policy on Health Development, 2001-2010 *
National Plan of Action on Education, 2007 *
National Plan of Action to Control HIV/AIDS, TB and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 2010 *
National Plan of Action on Special Groups, 2009 *
National Plan of Action on Informal Education, 2012 *
National Plan of Action on Internal Trafficking of Children, 2002 *
Strategic Plan to Control AIDS, 2006-2010 *
National Gender Policy, 2009 *
National Plan of Action on Education, 2000-2009 *
National Plan of Action on Promotion of Women, 2006-2010 *
National Youth Policy, 2008 *
Population Policy, 2000 *
National Sectoral Policy of Education, 2013 *

African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

State Party Reports
Initial	April 2006
Second and third *	2013

Concluding Recommendations
For Initial Report*

United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child

State Party Reports
Initial	7 Jul 1993
Second	11 Oct 1999
Third & Fourth	21 Feb 2008
Initial Report on the Optional Protocol on Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict	2010
Initial State Party Report on the Optional Protocol on Child Sale, Pornography and Prostitution,	2013

Concluding Observations
For Initial Report	25 Apr 1994
For Second Report	9 Oct 2002
For Third Report	9 Feb 2010
Concluding Observation to the Initial State Party Report on the Optional Protocol on Child Sale, Pornography and Prostitution	2013
Burkina Faso: Concluding Observation to the Initial State Party Report on the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, 2013	2O13

* Available only in French