provide gender budgeting guidelines and indicators to ministries and districts. Article 3: Right to Dignity 21. The Government of Rwanda has invested a lot of effort in the promotion and safeguarding of women’s rights, as enshrined in the Constitution’s fundamental principles, in promoting and protecting human rights for women as well as rights enshrined in this protocol. Rwanda embarks on the rule of law, ensuring social justice, guaranteeing equality between women and men, and affirmative action to redress past discrimination as indicated in the preceding paragraphs. 22. The Constitution also provides for equality between men and women and their rights to life, citizenship, freedom of movement, marriage, free choice of employment, equal employment and pay for equal competence and ability, and prohibits any form of discrimination. 23. In addition to the constitutional provisions, the legal, policy and strategic frameworks put in place are anchored on the principles of gender equality and the empowerment of women. All laws passed in recent years prohibit any form of discrimination and GBV. Following the passing of the GBV Law in 2008, the national GBV policy and related strategic plan were developed in 2011 to provide orientation in GBV prevention and response as well as to ensure effective coordination and monitoring of GBV interventions. This has greatly led to decrease in the number of domestic violence, raised awareness, shared decision making and property ownership and improved the right to dignity of women. Article 4: The Rights to Life, Integrity and Security of the Person 24. The Constitution of the Republic of Rwanda in its Article 13 states that “ a human being is sacred and inviolable and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights gave primary emphasis to the protection of human life and made direct reference to everyone's right to life. Moreover, in June 2015 Rwanda deposited an instrument for the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture which Page 74 of 105