Le secteur funéraire au Bénin est désormais réorganisé. Le décret n˚ 2024-991 du 19 juin 2024 fixe les règles applicables à l'exercice des activités funéraires au Bénin mais aussi les sanctions encourues en cas de non-respect de ces règles.
Le gouvernement béninois renforce la réglementation dans le secteur funéraire afin de le mettre aux normes et standards requis en matière de santé, d'hygiène, d'assainissement et d'environnement en vigueur au Bénin. Le décret définit les règles mais aussi les sanctions. Selon l'article 69 du décret, les actes constitutifs de manquements ou fautes sont passibles, selon leur gravité et sans préjudice des poursuites pénales, de sanctions. Au titre des fautes, il y a entre autres la surcharge de dépouilles mortelles dans les tiroirs, le défaut d'affichage du numéro d'agrément à l'entrée de l'établissement funéraire, la tenue de registres non côtés et paraphés, la réception de corps sans certificat de décès, la non transmission des données statistiques à l'autorité compétente dans le délai règlementaire et l'utilisation de véhicules non conformes. Pour ces fautes, il est prévu comme sanction ‘'un avertissement''. En cas de défaut d'enregistrement de dépouille mortelle, défaut de registre, inhumation sans permis d'inhumer, non déclaration du personnel à la sécurité sociale, non tenue à jour des carnets de vaccination du personnel, une amende forfaitaire s'applique. La récidive des actes passibles d'avertissement va conduire à une fermeture temporaire.
Le décret fait part aussi des fautes d'atteinte volontaire à l'intégrité physique d'une dépouille mortelle, l'utilisation des matériels et outils de travails non conformes à la réglementation, l'installation funéraire non conforme, l'exercice des activités funéraires sans agrément et l'opposition ou entrave à inspection à prise de vue ou de toute preuve d'infraction faite à un agent ou une autorité habilitée. Ces fautes sont passibles d'une fermeture temporaire et d'une amende forfaitaire. En cas de récidive des actes de fermeture provisoire, l'établissement ou l'entreprise sera définitivement fermé.
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Le Chef de l'Etat Patrice Talon a procédé à la prise du décret n˚ 2024-991 du 19 juin 2024 portant réglementation du secteur funéraire au Bénin. La décision a été prise en Conseil des ministres le 19 juin 2024, aux fins de réorganiser le secteur funéraire en le mettant aux normes et standards requis en matière de santé, d'hygiène, d'assainissement et d'environnement en vigueur au Bénin.
Le décret n˚ 2024-991 du 19 juin 2024 portant réglementation du secteur funéraire au Bénin instaure des innovations qui s'appliquent « à la catégorisation de ces activités, la fixation des normes techniques, sanitaires et environnementales applicables à la création, la gestion des pompes funèbres, des funérariums, des crématoriums et des cimetières ». Il prévoit également les qualifications minimales requises pour opérer dans ce domaine et les sanctions encourues par les contrevenants aux règles édictées.
Pakistan and Iran continue deporting Afghan refugees to their country of origin, leaving returnees in dire situations. Credit: Learning Together.
By External Source
Jul 9 2024 (IPS)
Sarai e Shamali camp in Kabul is a temporary refugee shelter. The camp receives on average 100 Afghans a day, forcibly returned from Pakistan and Iran where most had sought asylum when the Taliban took over power in Afghanistan three years ago.
The deportation has left these individuals in a desperate situation, facing severe financial hardship, homelessness, and a lack of means to earn a living.
Mastora, 32, spent her entire life in Pakistan with her family, where her husband sold leather, and they lived comfortably. Now, forcibly returned to Afghanistan, they have left everything behind in Pakistan and have nothing. “We have no house, no means of livelihood, not even money for transportation, and the Taliban do not provide us any support,” says Mastora.
Seven women were interviewed for this report; three of them were forcibly returned from Iran and four from Pakistan. Mastora, a mother of five, was among the women interviewed.
She was born in Pakistan where her parents had moved 40 years ago from poverty-stricken Afghanistan in search of a better life.
Mastora and her family are among the hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have been expelled from Pakistan when last year the country suddenly announced a forced deportation of undocumented Afghan refugees from the country, uprooting families that have been living in Pakistan for decades.
Iran also decided to send back Afghan refugees living in the country.
Pakistan has expelled more than 500 000 Afghans in the first phase of the deportation in November last year. The country’s authorities have announced a second phase of expulsion to be carried out in July this year that would affect 800 000 Afghans who they claim are illegal migrants.
All the women interviewed had no place to live; only four had managed to rent a house after several days of living in misery. The government of Afghanistan has failed to provide them with any support. Of the seven women interviewed, only one had received 1800 afghani (equivalent to 23 euros) from the UN when she was departing from Pakistan.
The arrival of the deportees has had immediate impact on Kabul where the cost of rent and prices of real estate have risen significantly.
The reason why many Afghans fled to neighbouring Pakistan and Iran was largely due to economic collapse after the Taliban takeover of power, persecution faced by many and the ensuing harsh oppression of women under the hard-line Islamist Taliban regime.
Afghans are however, being forcibly returned to a country where the conditions have worsened.
Madina Azizi, a civil activist and law graduate fled to Afghanistan a year ago. “I was in Pakistan for over nine months”, she said, “and now I have been forced to return to Afghanistan and I fear for my security. In Pakistan I did not live from one day to the next in fear of the Taliban coming after me”, said Azizi
In addition to financial issues, the women are also deeply worried about their daughters’ future in Afghanistan where the Taliban have clamped down girls’ education.
Shakiba and Taj Begum have been deported from Pakistan. They are illiterate, but their husbands are well-educated, and according to them, that’s why they know the value of education.
“I was in Pakistan for seven years; my daughter is 16 years old, and she was studying in the 9th grade. In Pakistan, my husband and I were working to build the future of our children, but now we have nothing here, we have no job, we have no shelter, and I am worried about the future of my two daughters, says Shakiba. ”
Begum also voices similar worries. “I was in Pakistan for four years. I have a daughter who was studying in grade 7 in Pakistan; my husband was a tailor. Our life was much better than it is now in Afghanistan. It’s been two weeks since we returned, and we haven’t found a home yet. We haven’t received any help. We are left wondering what to do.”
Malai, Feroza and Halima, deportees from Iran say they left Afghanistan after the Taliban took over power because they were no longer allowed to work. In Iran, however, they all had gainful employment. Malai worked as a cleaner with her husband, Feroza worked in a restaurant while Halima worked a hairdressing salon.
“Now we can barely manage our lives. If we are able to procure food for breakfast, we struggle to have some for the evening. When we are able to procure food for one day we have to portion it for the next day as well. We are living in great difficulties. We often have survived on tea and bread for days”, the women say.
The women have also recounted how their daughters and sons have no work and do not receive any support. The girls are not allowed to pursue further studies.
Due to the economic hardship and security risks facing the women who have been forced back into Afghanistan, immigration experts and women’s rights activists are calling on the Pakistani and Iranian authorities to halt the forced deportation of Afghans.
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Joey Shea is the UAE researcher at Human Rights Watch.
By Joey Shea
Jul 9 2024 (IPS)
At least 84 Emirati human rights defenders and political dissidents are on trial in the UAE, facing death sentences or life in prison on spurious charges related to their political activism and human rights work, in a case that has its origins in another from over a decade ago. A verdict is expected July 10.
“We hope that before you sentence us to death, you will give us the opportunity to defend ourselves,” implored Sheikh Muhammad al-Siddiq, an Emirati political dissident, during a March court hearing.
Public scrutiny on this case is necessary for these defendants to have any hope for freedom. The silence of the international community – now and over the last decade – has led us to where we are now: 84 of the UAE’s brightest civil society members are at risk of losing their voices forever.
Public scrutiny on this case is necessary for these defendants to have any hope for freedom. The silence of the international community – now and over the last decade – has led us to where we are now: 84 of the UAE’s brightest civil society members are at risk of losing their voices forever
The trial has been characterized by t fair trial and due process violations. Emirati authorities have restricted access to case material and information, shrouded the hearings in secrecy, and violated the principle of double jeopardy—an international legal rule that prohibits trying people twice for the same offense after they had received a final verdict. Judges have brazenly directed witness testimony. Most disturbingly, defendants have repeatedly described abusive detention conditions such as physical assaults, forced nudity, and prolonged solitary confinement that would amount to torture.
Emirati authorities announced the mass trial in December 2023 as the eyes of the world were on the UAE during the COP28 climate summit in Dubai: The timing was shocking, during an international meeting in the UAE that was promised to be “the most inclusive ever held.”
The bold timing can be chalked up to the impunity the UAE has enjoyed over the last decade. Despite the country’s continuing crackdown on political dissidents and civil society, few, if any, governments have dared to criticize the country’s rights record. The UAE has become a key security ally for many governments and has fostered strong economic ties.
The new trial can trace its origins back to the 2013 “UAE94” mass trial of political dissidents, where an Abu Dhabi court sentenced 69 defendants to between 5 and 15 years in prison on charges related to their political activism.
Most of the defendants from the 2013 trial are being tried in the new case on nearly identical charges, even after having served their full sentences. Emirati human rights defenders believe the authorities brought the new case to keep the dissidents detained indefinitely – there is little hope for an alternative outcome unless allied governments speak out.
Diplomatic missions expressed some concern over the UAE’s crackdown on civil and political rights in 2011 and 2013. In 2013, international institutions at least attempted to send observers to the trial. No embassy has sent monitors to observe trial proceedings to our knowledge.
But limited scrutiny was quickly traded for stronger economic and security relationships. Human rights groups have been pushing for sustained attention on the case for years, but instead silence has prevailed. This silence has led to Emirati state security authorities becoming emboldened and acting with greater impunity.
The UAE has long leveraged its economic and security relationships to prevent public criticism of its human rights record, but now the silence from the UAE’s western allies is nearly absolute. More than a decade on from the UAE94 trial, the silence from the UAE’s partners is total. During my recent trip to the UAE, diplomatic missions told me that public expression of concern for the fair trial violations we documented was out of the question; even private engagement was highly unlikely.
All governments concerned with human rights, particularly close security and economic allies of the UAE, should publicly condemn the trial’s abuses and send monitors to the July 10 session.
Sustained public attention and pressure may have led to the release of the UAE94 defendants upon completion of their sentences. Instead, the case was lost to political expediency and the new case was announced.
While the 2013 trial was covered extensively by the international press, the new case has barely made headlines. A few dedicated and brave outlets that have closely followed the trial, often at great personal risk to staff, but many more have not. Reporters following the trial could face travel bans, intimidation and deportation.
If neither the foreign press nor the diplomatic community provide the necessary scrutiny, the 84 may be condemned to suffer for many more years on July 10.
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Joey Shea is the UAE researcher at Human Rights Watch.Pour n'avoir pas obtenu son Brevet d'études du premier cycle (Bepc), à l'issue de la proclamation des résultats ce lundi 8 juillet 2024, une élève s'est donnée la mort à Allada.
Triste fin pour une candidate au BEPC, session de juin 2024. Elle s'est donnée la mort après la proclamation des résultats ce lundi. Selon les informations, la jeune fille n'a pas été déclaré admise. Ne pouvant admettre son échec, elle s'est jetée dans une citerne au quartier Dogoudo, dans la commune d'Allada. Une descente des sapeurs-pompiers sur lieux a permis de repêcher son corps sans vie.
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Depuis le 1er juillet, la loi permet à certaines entreprises privées d'inciter leurs salariés à travailler jusqu'à six jours par semaine, avec des heures supplémentaires bonifiées. Les syndicats s'indignent alors que la durée du travail en Grèce est déjà la plus élevée de l'Union européenne.
- Le fil de l'Info / Courrier des Balkans, Une - Diaporama, droite dure Grèce, Grèce, Economie, Société, Une - Diaporama - En premierUn présumé voleur de vin de palme a été brulé vif dans la nuit du dimanche 7 au lundi 8 juillet 2024, à Kouti, commune d'Avrankou.
Agé de 45 ans environ, un homme a été victime de vindicte populaire. Il a été brulé vil pour vol présumé de vin de palme selon Frissons Radio, à Tokpo non loin du CEG Kouti, arrondissement de la commune d'Avrankou. Il aurait été surpris en train de commettre le vol. L'homme ne serait pas à son premier acte de vol. Les populations ont résolu de lui ôter la vie. Selon le Chef quartier, la victime décédée a été inhumée au cimetière de Tokpa Agbokou, arrondissement de Kouti, dans la journée du lundi 8 juillet, après l'autorisation des autorités judiciaires.
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Le Palais des Congrès de Cotonou accueille la 12e édition éditions des Rencontres Africa du 9 au 11 juillet 2024.
Près de 1000 participants dont des décideurs français prennent part à des échanges économiques et commerciaux. C'est à l'occasion de la 12e édition des Rencontres Africa. Il s'agit de rencontres économiques multisectorielles afin « de soutenir le développement des sociétés françaises sur des marchés porteurs que représentent le Bénin ».
Du 9 au 11 juillet, il est prévu entre autres des conférences et ateliers sur diverses thématiques, des rendez-vous individuels sur mesure avec des chefs d'entreprises, des séances de speed matching avec les collectivités etc. Les participants pourront découvrir les opportunités d'investissement et de développement commercial offertes par les marchés ouest-africains et aussi explorer les potentialités du Bénin.
La 12e édition des rencontres Africa est soutenu par le Port Autonome de Cotonou. Kristof Van den Branden, Directeur commercial et marketing du port autonome de Cotonou interviendra au cours du panel intitulé « Logistique & Transport, le Bénin, une plateforme dans la sous-région ».
Ces Rencontres Africa à Cotonou permettent non seulement de rencontrer des acteurs économiques du Bénin et de l'Afrique de l'Ouest mais aussi d'établir des relations d'affaires.
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Les inscriptions au titre de l'année scolaire 2024-2025 sont ouvertes à l'Association Art Thérapie Sabina sise à Cadjèhoun (Cotonou).
Démarrage des inscriptions à l'association Art Thérapie Sabina. Elle accueille des enfants de 4 ans à 20 ans en situation de handicap et ayant des difficultés scolaires. L'association donne des cours de français, lecture, mathématiques, histoire et SVT. Les cours sont dynamiques et permettent aux enfants de vivre une expérience d'apprentissage autrement. Les enfants en situation de handicap prennent part également à diverses activités telles que le dessin, la peinture, la danse corporelle, le sport, le bricolage la cuisine et la natation.
L'inscription avec assurance scolaire est à partir de 6000 FCFA. « Que vous soyez un nouvel élève ou que vous reveniez pour une autre année passionnante, nous sommes impatients de vous accueillir dans notre établissement », a indiqué Mme Sabina Courte Koudafoke, art thérapeute et responsable de l'association. Pour plus d'informations, les parents peuvent contacter la direction de l'association au 59 02 89 63. « Nous sommes à votre écoute pour vous guider », rassure Sabina Courte.
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