Rwanda - Child Law Resources


The Constitution of the Republic of Rwanda, 2003
Law Relating to the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 2011
Law Relating to Rights and Protection of Children Against Violence, 2001
Law on Prevention and Punishment of Gender Based Violence, 2008
Law Governing Registration of the Population and Issuance of the National Identity Card, 2008
Law Relating to the Code of Criminal Procedure, 2004
Law Relating to Abolition of the Death Penalty, 2007
Law Relating to Protection of Disabled Persons in General, 2007
Law on the Prevention, Supression and Punishment of the Crime of Discriminaton and Secterianism, 2001
Law Organising Education, 2003
Law Relating to the Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Ideology, 2008
Law Establishing the National Human Rights Commission, 1999
Law Determining the Organisation and Functioning of the National Human Rights Commission, 2007
Law Regulating Labour in Rwanda, 2009
Law Relating to Rwandan Nationality, 2008
Order Establishing the Procedure for Application and Acquisition of Rwandan Nationality,2009
Law Establishing the Organisation and Function of the Office of the Ombdusman,2003
Penal Code, 1980
Law Establishing and Determining the Organisation of the National Prisons Service, 2006
Law Relating to the Establishment of the Fund for the Support and Assistance to the Survivors of the Tutsi Genocide and Other Crimes Against Humanity Committed between 1st October and 31st December 1994, and Determining its organisation, Competence and Functioning, 2008
Civil Code, 1988 *
Constitution, 2015


National Strategic Plan on Child Survival, 2008-2012 *
National Integrated Child Rights Policy, 2011
Strategic Plan for the Integrated Child Rights Policy in Rwanda, 2011
Poverty Reduction Strategic Paper,2002
Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy,2008-2012
Education Sector Policy,2003
Education Sector Strategic Plan, 2010-2015
Nine Years Basic Education Implemenation Strategy, 2008
Special Needs Education Policy, 2007
Early Childhood Development Policy, 2011
Health Sector Policy, 2005
Community Based Health Insurance Policy, 2010
National Strategic Plan on HIV and AIDS, 2009-2012
National Strategic Plan to Control AIDS, 2005
National Policy on Condoms, 2005
Mutual Health Insurance Policy in Rwanda, 2004
Expanded Program on Immunisation, 2006-2010
National Policy for Family Promotion, 2005
National Nutrition Policy, 2005
National Policy for Orphan and Other Vulnerable Children, 2003
Strategic Plan of Action for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children, 2007-2011
National Reproductive Health Policy, 2003
National Social Protection Strategy, 2011
National Social Security Policy, 2009
HIV and AIDs Strategic Plan 2013-2018, 2013
Food and Nutrition Strategic Plan 2013-2018, 2013
National Mental Health Plan
Vision 2020

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

State Party Reports
Initial	24 Apr 2006
Second and third periodic report on the African Charter on the Rights and Welfar of the Chid	2014

Concluding Recommendations
For Initial Report (Only available in French)

United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child

State Party Reports
Initial	30 Sept 1992
Second	27 June 2002
Third and Fourth	21 Jan 2011
Initial Report on the Optional Protocol on Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict	2010
Initial Report on the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography	2010

Concluding Observations
For Initial Report	18 Oct 1993
For Second Report	1 July 2004
Concluding observation to the combined third and fourth periodic report on the Convention on the Rights of the Child	2013
Concluding observation to the initial state party report on the Optional Protocol on Child Sale, Pornography and Prostitution	2013
Concluding observation to the initial state party report on the Optional Protocol on Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict	2013