authorities. 71. Children have a duty to assist their parents. The law determines the rules governing marriage and the organization of the family. This law is the Family Code. This basic legal text has just been revised to bring it in line with international instruments. This action is to ensure that it is consistent with the promotion of gender and the protection of children’s rights. The achievements of this revision have been clearly indicated in the answer provided in the concluding recommendation No. xv. Article 28: EVERY INDIVIDUAL SHALL HAVE THE DUTY TO RESPECT AND CONSIDER HIS FELLOW BEINGS 72. The information provided in the previous report adequately addresses this issue. Article 29: THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL TOWARDS THE STATE 73. With regard to this issue, there is no information except what has been provided in the previous report. Difficulties encountered in the implementation of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and measures taken to resolve them. 74. The DR- Congo government is making significant efforts to implement the rights guaranteed by the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. However, its action is confronted with a number of difficulties related mainly to the recurrence of armed conflicts in the Eastern part of the country, with some attendant consequences: they include the limited size of the budget, attributable, on the one hand, to the low mobilization of public revenue and to the allocation of a greater part of available resources to the peace-building process all over the country, on the other; the inadequate financial allocation for the social sectors and to the justice and human rights sector. Future Plans related to the Implementation of the Charter 75. Better prospects exist for the satisfactory operationalization of the post -2015 Development Agenda of the DRC. These are due to the current development vision of the country, the expertise acquired through the experience of implementing the MDGs and the renewed commitment of the government to actualize its development vision which falls directly within the scope of respect for human rights, among others, the socio-economic rights of the people. 76. Since 2011, the DRC has had strong commitment to the Revolution of the Modernity Vision espoused by the President of the Republic. This vision, which can be broken down into seven key points, is based on the ambition to ensure that the country joins the comity of (i) middle income countries by 2020; (ii) emerging countries by 2030, and (iii) developed countries by 2050. The implementation or operationalization instruments of these three phases are the following: the National Forward-looking Strategy (ENPRDC/2035) which is being developed and will specify the long-term development vision of the country and the different short and long term development plans as a single and unifying framework. The ENPRDC/2035) will enable the country to (i) undertake a pre-diagnosis of the situation through a summary of the potential dynamics of the development of the economy and the Congolese society and to address the issues and challenges by dealing with and promoting these dynamics; and , (ii) proposing various development scenarios for the country by 2035. 77. With regard to the short and medium term development plans, the DSCRP-2 and the PAG 2012-2016 have helped to prepare the country for emergence by consolidating institutional peace and stability within the macroeconomic framework. To this day, the DRC is preparing its PNSD for the period 2017-2050 which will make the country, (i) a middle-income one based on the transformation of its agriculture, (ii) an emerging country by 2030 through an intensive industrialization of its economy, and finally, (iii) a developed country by 2050 due to the creation of a society based on the dissemination of know-how and knowledge. Measures taken to implement the recommendations made during the promotion 24