A/HRC/8/39 Page 16 13. Recommended that Benin take measures to ensure that torture is defined and listed as a specific offence within Benin’s criminal law (United Kingdom); 14. Recommended that Benin ensures that no statement obtained under torture or duress can be invoked in proceedings and that orders from a superior may not be invoked as a justification of torture (Denmark); 15. Recommended that Benin should investigate allegations of torture and ill treatment and bring to justice those responsible in line with international standards (Canada); 16. Recommended that Benin display greater firmness in preventing abuses of police custody, torture and ill-treatment and brings criminal proceedings against the perpetrators of such violations (Denmark); 17. Recommended that Benin take effective measures to ensure that prison conditions are consistent with international standards (Netherlands); 18. Recommended that Benin take further steps to establish and implement laws against domestic violence and the trafficking of women and children, and to ensure that existing laws prohibiting female genital mutilation are reviewed and enforced throughout the country (United Kingdom); 19. Recommended to Benin to better apply the existing laws concerning trafficking in children and human being (Canada); 20. Recommended that Benin promote the visit of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography which could contribute to the efforts of Benin in its protection of children (Mexico); 21. Recommended to Benin to accelerate and strengthen its efforts to elaborate laws and policies to deal with female genital mutilation practices (Canada); 22. Recommended to Benin to give more importance to the schooling of girls in its education programmes, which would certainly contribute to combat female genital mutilation (Mauritania); 23. Recommended to Benin to establish as a priority a reform of the judiciary by strengthening a justice system which would be better able to combat impunity and corruption, including by putting an end to exaggerated pre-trial detention (Canada); 24. Recommended to Benin to consider , with targeted international support, the extension of free education up to the secondary level; and to continue the information campaign in favour of admitting girls to school (Algeria); 25. Recommended to Benin that it continue its efforts to ensure greater promotion of the rights of women in particular those of girls in the areas of education and health care (Tunisia); 26. Recommended that Benin intensify its efforts to favour support and material assistance to the most marginalized families and the most underprivileged