directions are: (i) laws, policies, standards and regulations, (ii) cooperation, coordination and
collaboration, (iii) strengthening the technical and institutional capacity of stakeholders for
prevention and response to child protection;
6) Mapping and evaluation of the system of protection of the rights of the child;
7) The national strategy to prevent and combat the phenomenon of street children;
8) The National Child Protection Policy (PNPE);
9) Minimum standards for children in institutions or deprived of a family environment;
13. With regard to the Conventions or other international treaties in force in Burundi, the following
should be mentioned:
1) Legislative Decree No. 1/13 of 16 August 1990 ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the
Child;
(2) Law No. 1/13 of 17 September 2007 ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the
Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography;
(3) Law No. 1/05 of 5 April 2012 on the ratification of the Additional Protocol to the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo Convention, Annex II) to
Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, particular women and children; (
4) Law No. 1/008 of 22 July 1996 ratifying ILO Convention No. 138 on Minimum Age for
Admission to Employment;
(5) Law No. 1/12 of 20 June 2001 ratifying ILO Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child
labour and immediate action for their elimination;
6) Law No. 1/04 of 18 January 2005 ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights
of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict.
14. In relation to the initiatives taken to promote positive cultural values, traditions and practices
and to discourage those which are incompatible with the rights, duties and obligations set out in the
Children's Charter, the Republic of Burundi adopted in 2013 a programme on patriotic education
and training. Title V of the programme places particular emphasis on the training of the population
and the youth in positive traditional cultural values such as solidarity, mutual social assistance,
forgiveness and mutual tolerance, patriotism, the sense of discretion (ibanga ) and responsibility,
dignity (ubupfasoni) and respect for others and oneself, humanism and personality (ubuntu) and
castigate anti values.
15.
With a view to coordinating child-related policies and monitoring the implementation of
the provisions of the Children's Charter, Burundi has put in place the following mechanisms:
• The Ministry of Human Rights, Social Affairs and Gender, whose main mission is to conduct
policies and actions for vulnerable groups, including children. The Ministry is also in charge of the
coordination and implementation of the National Policy for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children
(OVC), with the creation within the General Directorate of Social Assistance and National
Solidarity, of a Department of Children and Family (DEF). This Ministry is designated as a key
ministry for the promotion and protection of children and coordinates the implementation of the
National Child Protection Policy through the National Child Protection Coordination Technical
Committee (CTCNPE) ;
• The Ministry of Justice, which deals with activities related to the theme "Children and Justice",
and who hosts the "Juvenile Unit", which coordinates all activities in this area at national level;
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