This report provides supplementary information on the 3rd and 4th reports of the Republic of Rwanda on the implementation of the CRC. It discusses major child rights issues including persistence of corporal punishment in family settings, higher number of children involved in hazardous work, lack of assisting devices for children with disabilities, burdening education costs which compromise free education, sexual exploitation in refugee camps, lack of specialised juvenile chambers at the high and supreme courts and reluctance to ratify the third optional protocol to the CRC on a communications procedure.

Previous CRC - NGO Alternative Report items

• 07/07/2012: INDONESIA: briefing for the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, pre-sessional working group meeting
• 03/07/2012: Submission to the UN CRC Committee at its 61st Session and Periodic Review of Canada
• 01/07/2012: Canada's Forgotten Children: Written Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the child on the 3rd and 4th Reports of canada
• 01/07/2012: USA: Second Periodic Report on the Implementation of the OPAC, Follow-up Brief
• 01/07/2012: Partnership for Open Society Justice Initiative's Submission to the UN CRC

Contact Information:

Rwanda Civil Society Child Rights Coalition "Umwana ku Isonga"
c/o The Association for the Defense of Women and Children's Rights "HAGURUKA a.s.b.l"
PO Box 3030 Kigali, Rwanda
T/F: +250 025 258 5709
M: +250 788 300 834
E: haguruka2009@yahoo.com

Last updated 29/10/2012 15:01:25

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