place in the next periodic report to be submitted in the next two years. In this report, in addition to the issue of Casamance, issues relating to the environment will be highlighted but in a developmental perspective so as to allow certain aspects of development rights to be considered as provided for by the African Charter. 140. In short, the Government of Senegal has reviewed the implementation of rights set out in the African Charter by taking into account the types of relationships implied by their implementation, notably « a civil relationship, which implies legal recognition as a citizen; political relationship, an active participation by the Government; economic relationship, reciprocity and exchange; social relationship, integration into the democratic society; and cultural relationship, belonging to a Community41 » and especially the importance of political, economic, cultural, religious and social history of the country which has a major influence in what Senegalese consider to be their rights and the mode of their enforcement since the human being « only gains access to humanity through the medium of a specific culture.42 » A. IMPLEMENTATION OF CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS : I. RESPECT OF RULES OF NON-DISCRIMINATION (Articles 2 and 3): 141. First and foremost, it must be recalled that the Government of Senegal has ratified all the international conventions prohibiting discrimination, especially the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and in Africa, the Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the Protocol to the Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa. 142. Furthermore, the relevant provisions of its Constitution have also established the unequivocal elimination and condemnation of all forms of discrimination. In fact, Article 1 of the Constitution states that « Senegal is a secular, democratic and social Republic. It provides for equality of all citizens before the law without distinction as to origin, race, gender and religion. It respects all beliefs. No section of the population or any individual shall arrogate to himself/herself the exercise of sovereignty. » Article 3 of the same Constitution supplements this prohibition by stipulating that « national sovereignty belongs to the people who exercise it through their representatives and through referendums. » 41 See Mireille Delmas Marty, Trois défis pour un droit mondial, (Three Challenges for a Global Right) Seuil Publications, 1998, page 48. 42 See Pierre-Henry Imbert, « L’apparente simplicité des droits de l’homme, réflexion sur les différents aspects de l’universalité des droits de l’homme »,( The apparent simplicity of human rights, reflections on the different aspects of the universality of human rights) Quarterly Human Rights Review, 1989, page 7. 33