legal information about land rights and how to protect them. This manual, which is particularly helpful to women with limited legal literacy, provides information about the land registration process and ways of safeguarding individual rights, those of children and spouses. In addition, UNSCR 1325 was translated into Kinyarwanda and disseminated at all levels. 51. During the month dedicated to women and girls starting with International women’s day, gender machinery organizes awareness raising meetings countrywide on different themes around gender equality and women’s rights. During these meetings, women are educated about different laws and initiatives in place to promote their rights. Article 9: Right to Participation in the Political and Decision-Making Process 52. Rwandan Laws guarantee women’s equal participation in decision making organs has been passed and policies adopted in Rwanda since 1995 and all these resulted in resulted in an unprecedented increase in women’s rights to participate in decision-making positions in all spheres of development. The Constitution reserves for at-least 30% quota for women in decision making resulted in an unprecedented number of women being appointed or elected into decision-making positions at all levels. 53. This quota is also applied to political parties. The Organic law governing political parties and politicians was also revised in July 2013 (Organic Law N° 10/20/2013/OL of 11/07/2013) to eliminate any form of discrimination in political parties. Article 7 of the law prohibits political organizations from basing themselves on race, ethnic group, tribe, lineage, region, sex, religion or any other division which may lead to discrimination. 54. During the September 2013 parliamentary election, the National Electoral Commission provided improved guidelines and physical environment to ensure equal participation of women and men and civic and voter education were organized with specific sessions targeting Page 82 of 105