No.011/22 of 24 December, 2011 on the fundamental principles governing agriculture; (v) Law No. 11/007 of 6 July, 2011 on the implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of Employment, Storage, Production and the Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and their Destruction in the DRC; (vi) Law No. 011/009 of 9 July, 2011 on the fundamental principles relating to environmental protection; (vii) Law No.11/003 of 25 July, 2011 amending Law No. 06/006 of 9 March, 2006 on the organisation of presidential, parliamentary, provincial, urban and local elections (viii) Law No. 11/014 of 17 August, 2011 on the distribution of seats per electoral constituency; (ix) Organic Law No. 13/010 of 19 February, 2013 on the procedure at the Court of Cassation; (x) Organic Law No.13/011-B of 11 April, 2013 on the organisation, functioning and responsibilities of Courts under the Judiciary; (xi) Organic Law No. 13/012 of 19 April, 2013 amending and complementing Organic Law No.10/013 of 28 July, 2010 on the organisation and operationalization of the CENI; (xii) Law No.13/005 of 15 January, 2013 on the status of the military in the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo; (xiii) Law No. 13/013 of 1 June, 2013 on the status of the career staff of the National Police; (xiv) Organic Law No. 13/026 of 15 October, 2013 on the organisation and functioning of the Constitutional Court; (xv) Law No.13/0l 1 of 21 March, 2013 on the establishment of the National Human Rights Commission. The DRC has also pursued efforts concerning the ratification of international human rights Conventions. They include, among others, Accession to the Treaty for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa by Law No. 10/002/ of 11 February, 2012 authorising accession of the DRC to the OHADA Treaty and on 23 September, 2010 to the Optional Protocol of the Convention against Torture and other Inhuman or Degrading Treatment and Punishments and Law No. 13/024 of 27 July, 2013 on the authorisation of accession by the DRC to the Rights of People with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol. 19. Some administrative measures were also taken by the government to enforce the different laws passed by Parliament. They include, among others, the following measures: - - Decree No. 11/01 of 5 January, 2011 issued by the Prime Minister to determine the jurisdictions and the ordinary seats of Juvenile Courts to ensure their establishment; Decree No.13/008 of 23 January, 2013 on the establishment of a national humanitarian consultative framework; Ministerial Order No. 219/CAB/MINJ&DH/2011 of 13 June, 2011 on the establishment, organisation and functioning of the Human Rights Defenders Protection Unit; Orders No. 001/CAB/MIN/J&DH/2011 and No.002/CAB/J&DH/2011 on the respective establishment of secondary seats of Juvenile Courts and the determination of their jurisdiction and grouping of jurisdictions of Juvenile Courts for the implementation of measures relating to their custody, education and protection; Ministerial Order No. 063/CAB.MIN AFF SAH SN/2012 of 17 September, 2012 on the Establishment, organisation and functioning of the corps of social assistants in the DRC; Order for Judicial Organisation No. 029/CAB/MIN/J&DH/2013 of 28 January, 2013 on the Establishment, Organisation and Functioning of Local Supervision Committees for Budgetary Management of Provincial Central Prisons and Detention Camps. MEASURES TAKEN TO GUARANTEE THE EFFECTIVE ENJOYMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS RECOGNIZED BY THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS Article 1: HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS, DUTIES AND FREEDOMS. 20. Notwithstanding what the DRC presented in its tenth report, the Constitution of 18 February, 2006 as amended by Law No. 11/002 of 20 January, 2011 on the review of some Articles of the Constitution, has declared and provided guarantees for almost all the rights, duties and freedoms stipulated in the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights . This is in reference to Articles 11 to 67. They also include laws passed by Parliament for the implementation of the constitutional provisions guaranteeing rights, duties and freedoms protected by the Charter. Article 2: NON-DISCRIMINATION. 21. Besides what has been presented in the previous report, the enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms stipulated in the Charter is guaranteed to all Congolese citizens and foreigners living in the DRC without any distinction whatsoever. The laws cited below uphold nondiscrimination among individuals :  Law No. 118/0011 of 14 July, 2008 on the protection of the rights of persons living with HIV/AIDS; 18

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