CRC/C/RWA/CO/3-4
(d)
Law No. 13/2009 of 27 May 2009 regulating labour in Rwanda and its
subsequent regulations namely, Ministerial Order No. 06 of 13 July 2010 determining the
list of worst forms of child labour;
(e)
Law No. 59/2008 of 10 September 2008 on the prevention and punishment of
gender-based violence and its subsequent regulations; and
(f)
Law No. 01/2007 of 20 January 2007 relating to protection of the rights of
people living with disabilities.
5.
The Committee also welcomes the ratification of or accession to the following
international instruments:
(a)
The Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, in March 2012;
(b)
The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant
Workers and Members of Their Families, in June 2010;
(c)
The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, in August 2009;
(d)
The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, in October 2008;
(e)
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional
Protocol, in December 2008; and
(f)
The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment, in October 2008.
6.
The Committee notes as positive the following institutional and policy measures:
(a)
The National Policy to Fight against Child Labour adopted in 2012;
(b)
The National Strategy for Childcare Reform adopted in March 2012;
(c)
The Integrated Child Rights Policy and its Strategic Plan adopted in August
2011;
(d)
The National Commission for Children (NCC) established under the Ministry
of Gender and Family Promotion in June 2011;
(e)
The National Social Protection Policy in January 2011; and
(f)
The National Girls’ Education Policy in April 2008.
III. Main areas of concern and recommendations
A.
General measures of implementation (arts. 4, 42 and 44 (para. 6), of the
Convention)
The Committee’s previous recommendations
7.
The Committee regrets that some of the Committee’s concluding observations from
2004 on the State party’s second periodic report under the Convention have not been fully
addressed but still remain valid.
8.
The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary measures to address
all
those
recommendations from the
2004 concluding
observations
(CRC/C/15/Add.234, 2004) that still remain valid. The Committee notes the progress
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