www.Droit-Afrique.com as required, through decisions from the minister of labour. Art.D.189-10.- It shall be prohibited to employ women to work in the making, handling and sale of writings, printed material, posters, drawings, engravings, paintings, emblems, images or another objects whose sale, offer, exhibition, posting or distribution are punished by criminal law, as contrary to good morals. It shall also be prohibited to employ women to do any kind of work in the premises where the works, spelt out in the previous sub paragraph, are carried out. Art.D.189-11.- The total duration of the time off given to breastfeeding mothers shall be one hour per day during working hours. This hour shall be completely separate from the rest provided for in article D.189-2. It shall be split into two periods of thirty minutes each, one during working hours in the morning, the other in the afternoon. These breaks of half an hour may be taken by mothers at specific times set through mutual agreement between the parties, themselves and the employer. Failing an agreement, these breaks shall be taken midway through half a day of work. Mothers shall always be allowed to breakfast their children within the premises of the institution. A special breastfeeding room must, through a formal notice from the labour inspector, be set aside for this purpose in all institutions or near any institutions employing over twenty-five women. Art.D.189-12.- Women may not be employed for an overall period of eight weeks before and after they give birth. It shall notably be prohibited to employ expectant women in the six weeks following child birth. The prohibition aimed at the period which comes before childbirth shall be applicable when the woman or the medical department of the institution would have notified the head of the institutions about the state of the pregnancy and the estimated date of confinement. Mali The same prohibition shall apply to pregnant women, subject to the employer being informed about their condition either by the women themselves or the medical department. Art.D.189-14.- In all institutions, be there agricultural, commercial or industrial, public or private, lay or religious, even when the training offered by these institutions is vocational or charitable , including family companies or with individuals, it shall be prohibited to employ children, irrespective of their sex, who are less than 18 to engage in tasks beyond their strength, posing danger or which, by their nature and the conditions in which they are done, can adversely affect their morality. Art.D.189-15.- In any case, children may not be employed to work uninterruptedly for more than eight hours daily. In mines, underground galleries, and quarries, the time for climbing, descending and meals shall not be included in the duration stated in the previous paragraph. Art.D.189-16.- Children aged less than eighteen, employees, workers and apprentices may not be employed for any night work, between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m., in all industrial institutions and notably in : • 1° all types of mines, quarries and mineralextracting industries; • 2° industries in which products are manufactured, modified, cleaned, repaired, decorated, finalised, prepared for sale or in which materials are transformed; including ship construction, equipment-scrapping companies as well the production, transformation and transmission of the prime mover in general and electricity. • 3° the construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, modification or demolition of all buildings and edifices ; railway, tramways, ports, docks, piers, canals, internal navigation facilities, routes, tunnels, bridges, viaducts, drains, wells, electrical installations, gasworks plants, water distribution, or other construction works, as well as preparation and foundation works prior to the works herein above; • 4° the transportation of people or goods in docks, quays, wharfs and warehouses Art.D.189-13.-It shall be prohibited to have women carry, push or pull any load whatsoever, in the three weeks following normal resumption of work, after childbirth. Implementing Decree of the Labour Code 23/29