code specifically punishes the crime of rape committed on an elderly person54, the harassment of an elderly person55. 120. Food and housing of older persons are also provided for by the general programmes, such as “Girinka Munyarwanda” and “Bye Bye Nyakatsi” which relate respectively to granting cows and building modern houses for poor families, including those of the older. The VUP Program also provides direct support (cash transfers) to extremely poor households without labour capacity, including elderly women. It is worth mentioning that the law Nº 27/2016 of 08/07/2016 governing matrimonial regimes, donations and successions allows under its Article 73, grandparents to inherit the property of their grandsons. This will also help persons in old age, including elderly women. 121. With regard to legal capacity and access to justice, the Ministry of Justice has established an appropriated staff operating in Access to justice house. This staff has the mission to provide legal aid services to persons unable to afford services of professional lawyers, including most of older persons. 122. It is important to highlight that elder people, women inclusive are among the categories that are assisted to acquire community-based health insurance (Mutuelles de Santé)” funded by the State particularly for indigent persons unable to pay their contribution/subscription and this facilitates women’s access to quality health services. Article 23: Special Protection of Women with Disabilities 123. As per article 16 of the Constitution of the Republic of Rwanda of 2003 as revised in 2015, all Rwandans are born and remain free and equal in rights and duties. Discrimination of whatever kind based on, inter alia, ethnic origin, tribe, clan, colour, sex, region, social origin, religion or faith, opinion, economic status, culture, language, social Article 197 of the Organic Law no 01/2012/OL of 02/05/2012 instituting the penal code, O G nº Special of 14 June 2012. 55 Article 236 of the same organic law punishes harassment of an elderly person as a misdemeanor and with a term of imprisonment of six (6) months to two (2) years and a fine of two hundred thousand (200,000) to three million (3,000.000) Rwandan francs or one of these penalties. 54 Page 102 of 105